City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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10th January 1780 - 30th December 1780

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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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of January in the Twentieth 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
Henry Woodward< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry
Akin
< no role > William Patterson< no role > John Biggs< no role > , John Cann< no role > , John Noyse< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role >
William Warren< no role > , John Haycock< no role > , James Round< no role > , James Stone< no role > , John
Turner
< no role > and Henry Clements< no role > good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duty sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Henry Woodward< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Henry Woodward< no role >
(Suspected to have been Murder'd) on the Twenty Second
day of January in the Year aforesaid died suddenly
in a Street called Hamilton Street in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
That no Marks of violence appeared on the Body,
and that the said Henry Woodward< no role > departed this
Life in a natural Way, and not by any hurt pr
Injury from Susannah Atterwell or any other
Person to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Henry Akin Foreman of the said Jurors
on the on 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
abovewritten

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .
Henry Akin< no role > Foreman




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