City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1779 - 29th December 1779

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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign, Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of January in the Nineteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
A Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George Way< no role >
John Roberts< no role > , Joseph Cope< no role > Edmund Gale< no role > , John Bayley< no role > , George Jones< no role > , Richard
Pollard
< no role > , Patrick Matthews< no role > , Edward Gray< no role > , William Burgess< no role > Henry Little< no role > ,
Joseph Bennet< no role > and James Hare< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man Unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown
on the First day of January in the Year aforesaid
was found dead in a certain Court called Crown
-Court in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence
appeared on the Body, and that the said Man
Unknown died by the inclemency of the Weather.
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner,
as the said George Way< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors,
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

George Way Foreman< no role >




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