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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty third day of December in the twenty fourth
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 Edward Mott< no role > Francis Hart< no role > , James Ryan< no role > , John
Carter
< no role > , Roderick Mc.Kensie< no role > , James Young< no role > , Joseph
Pitts
< no role > , Lewis Dupois< no role > , Thomas Hannon< no role > , Lewis Lecosse< no role >
Robert Petter< no role > , Henry Virett< no role > and John Boselett< 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 on the Twenty second day
of December in the Year aforesaid the said Man
unknown was found dead in a Common Neccessary-
-House in a certain Stable Yard or Mews called
Badmays Mews (where the said Man unknown usually
slept at Night) situate in the said Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of
violence appeared on the Body, and that the said Man
unknown departed this Life by the Inclemency of the
Weather. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner
as the said Edward Mott< 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

Edw Mott [mark] Foreman




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