City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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31st January 1782 - 22nd December 1782

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City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex .}


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Tenth 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
Elizabeth Mitchell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Lee
< no role > , George Otley< no role > , Jenkin Pridey< no role > , James Ayre< no role > Andrew Sheppard< no role > , John
Beynton
< no role > , Joseph Long< no role > , David Davey< no role > Robert Thompson< no role > , John Cross< no role > ,
Alexander Lion< no role > , John Spearing< no role > , William Stater< no role > and
Thomas Martin< no role > good and lawful Man of the said Liberty, duty
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 Elizabeth Mitchell< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Mitchell< no role >
on he Ninth day of December in the Year aforesaid
died suddenly in the Publick Street called Piccadilly
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, That no Marks of violence
appeared on the Body, and that the said Elizabeth
Mitchell
< no role > departed this Life in a natural Way, and
not by any hurt or Injury from any Person to
the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Lee< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Lee< no role > Foreman




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