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 first day of June in the twenty second
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
Lloyd Dulany< no role >
Esquire
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
George Martin< no role >
Robert Barker< no role >
Archibald Coyle< no role >
John Grant< no role >
,
Sham Tooth< no role >
,
John Cooke< no role >
,
William Allender< no role >
,
John
Paris< no role >
,
Thomas Weaver< no role >
,
Mark Warcup< no role >
,
John Skelton< no role >
,
William Sills< no role >
John Stone< no role >
Henry Slack< no role >
,
Thomas Waters< no role >
and
Richard Sweet< 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
Lloyd Dulany< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That
Bennet Allen< no role >
late of the said Parish of Saint
George Hanover Square
within the Liberty and County aforesaid Clerk, and
Robert Morris< no role >
late of the same Parish Esquire not having
the fear of God before their Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Eighteenth day of June
in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in
and upon the said
Lloyd Dulany< no role >
in the Peace of God and of our said Sovereign Lord the King then and there being
feloniously willfully and of their Malice fore thought did make an Assault, And that the said
Bennet Allen< no role >
a
certain Pistol of the Value of ten Shillings charged and loaded with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet which he the
said Bonnet Allen then and there had and held in his Right hand to and against the Body of him the said Lloyd
Dulany did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Bonnet Allen feloniously wilfully
and of his Malice fore thought did then and there give unto him the said Lloyd Dulany with the leadon Bullet aforesaid
so as aforesaid shot and discharged out of the Pistol aforesaid by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid on the Right side
of him the said Lloyd Dulany one mortal Wound into and through the Body of him the said Lloyd Dulany, of which said
Mortal Wound he the said Lloyd Dulany from the said Eighteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid until the
Twenty first day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Twenty first day of June in the Year aforesaid
he the said Lloyd Dulany at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid of the Mortal Wound aforesaid did
die. And the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Robert Morris< no role >
at the time of the committing
of the Felony and Murder aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his Malice forethought was present abetting
aiding assisting comforting and maintaining the said
Bennet Allen< no role >
to kill and Murder the said Lloyd Dulany
in Manner aforesaid, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Bennet Allen
and
Robert Morris< no role >
him the said Lloyd Dulany in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and
of their Malice forethought did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
And that the said
Bennet Allen< no role >
and
Robert Morris< no role >
nor either of them at the time of the doing and committing of
the Felony and Murder aforesaid, or at any time since, had any Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said
Liberty or elsewhere to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said
George Martin< no role >
Foreman
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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
Geo: Martin [mark] Foreman