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 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 Twelfth day of September 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 new born Female Child then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Scott< no role > , Anthony Fabry< no role > Edward Hawkins< no role >
John Brown< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , Thomas Gwillim< no role > ,
Henry Loton< no role > , John Ludlam< no role > , William Whitworth< no role > , Robert
Ellis
< no role > , William Woods< no role > and Thomas Alden< 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 Female Child came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say
That on the Eleventh day of
September in the Year aforesaid the said new born
Female Child was found dead in a certain Field
adjoining to Tothill Fields 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 Thomas
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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos. ScottForeman




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