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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the Third day of December in the Twenty third
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
William Stevenson< no role >
Thomas Beavington< no role >
Anthony Wyatt< no role >
,
James
Atkins< no role >
,
John Welk< no role >
,
John Boillings< no role >
Joseph Green< no role >
David Davies< no role >
,
David
Shilfox< no role >
,
John Charles Parry< no role >
,
George Bowers< no role >
,
Richard Whitmore< no role >
Stephen Le Clerk< no role >
,
John Greening< no role >
,
Thomas Nesbitt< no role >
,
James
Kidmin< no role >
,
Thomas Smith< no role >
and
George Ranck< 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
(Suspected to have been Murdered) on the first day of
December in the Year aforesaid
was found dead in Compton Street
in the Parish aforesaid
wihtin the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no
Marks of violence appeared on the Body; and that the
said Man unknown departed this life in a natural Way,
to Wit, of an Inflamation in the Bowels.
In Witness whereof as well the said Corner as
the said
William Stevenson< 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 first
abovewritten
Tho. Prickard< no role >
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Coroner
.
Wm Stevenson
Foreman}
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