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

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Image 477 of 61815th October 1783


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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fifteenth day of October 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 Manning then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
James Musson< no role > , Richard Hatch< no role > , James Drabwell< no role > This name instance is in set 18620.
James Grierson< no role > , Job Dakin< no role > , William Williams< no role > , John Westwood< no role >
John Baynes< no role > , William Littleboy< no role > , Elias Glayre< no role > , John
Cartridge
< no role > and Samuel Mitchell< 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 Manning came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Manning
(whose Christian name is unknown, and suspected to have
been Murdered) on the fourteenth day of October in
the Year aforesaid did suddenly in a Hackney Coach
upon Westminster Bridge in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid That no
Marks of violence appeared on her Body, and that the
said Manning departed this Life in a natural [..]
and not by any Injury from Mary Howard< no role > or Margaret
Smith
< no role > , or any other Person to the knowledge of the said Jurors,
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as
the said James Musson 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 > [mark] Coroner

James Musson< no role > [mark] Foreman




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