City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1783 - 30th December 1783

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


An Inquisition Intended, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of March 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 George Brown< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of, John Scott< no role > , John Dowey< no role > , Joseph Charles< no role > , John
Thompson
< no role > , Samuel Spurnack,< no role > John Wilson< no role > , John Newman< no role > ,
John Robinson< no role > , Robert Taylor< no role > , Stuart Tabream< no role > Michael
Roberts
< no role > and Valentine Chaddock< 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 George Brown< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Brown< no role > on
the Third day of March in the Year aforesaid, between
the hours of Eleven and Twelve at Night, was found dead
by John Bolney< no role > a Watchman in a certain Street called
little St. Ann's Lane in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of
violence appeared on the Body, and that the said George
Brown
< no role > departed this life in a natural Way, and not from
any Hurt or Injury by any Person whatsoever to the
knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said John Scott< 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

John Scott< no role > [mark] Foreman




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