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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second 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
William Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Harry
Higham
< no role > , William Hinshelwood< no role > , Thomas Ferguson< no role > , Edward Halley< no role > , Robinson
Dobinson
< no role > , John Dobinson< no role > , John Hooper< no role > , Thomas Roader< no role > , James Mackintosh< no role >
Thomas Tyne< no role > , Thomas Barber< no role > & John Smith< 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 William Taylor< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said William Taylor< no role > on
the Twenteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid
was found dead in a certain Place by the Green at
Knightsbridge , in the Parish aforesaid within the LIberty
and County aforesaid, That no Marks of violence appeared
on the Body, and that the said William Taylor< no role > departed
this Life in a natural Way ,and not by any Injury
from any Person, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, [..]
well the said Coroner,as the said Harry Higham
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
Harry Higham Foreman




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