City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1778 - 31st December 1778

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Image 345 of 53414th August 1778


City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex .}
To wit.


To the Constables of the Parish of Saint James
within the said Liberty of Westminster .

By Virtue of my Office, these are in his Majesty's Name to charge
and command you, that on sight hereof you summon and warn
twenty-four able and sufficient Men of the said Liberty, personally to be
and appear before me, on Friday the 14th. Day
of August Instant by Six of the Clock in the After noon of
the same Day, at the House of Mr. Palmer the Sign of the
Nags Head in Carnaby Market in the said Parish and Liberty
then and there to do and execute all such Things as shall be given them
in charge, on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty,
touching the Death of William Blake< no role >
and for your so doing this is your Warrant. And that you also attend at the
Time and Place abovementioned to make a Return of the Names of those
you shall so Summon: And further to do and execute such other Matters
as shall be then and there enjoined you, and have you then there this Warrant.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal this 14th. Day of August in
the Year of our Lord 17 7

Tho. Prickard< no role > .Coroner .




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