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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of December in the Twenty first Year
of the Regin 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 new born Female Child then and before lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Askey
< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Brown< no role > , William Luxton< no role > , John Poole< no role > , Richard
Hatch
< no role > , Joseph Peacock< no role > , Evan Williams< no role > , John Snow< no role > ,
William Smith< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , Edward Williams< no role >
and Richard Mason< 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 new born Female Child came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty ninth day
of December in the Year aforesaid the said new born
Female Child was found dead in a certain Place
called Park Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks
of violence appeared on the Body, and that the
said Female Child was Still born. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Robert Askey< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Robt. Askey [mark] Foreman




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