City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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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 St. James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of February 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 Mary Cunliffe< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Jarvis< no role > Thomas Purdham< no role > , John Smith< no role >
Thomas Cook< no role > , Robert Younger< no role > , John Harris< no role > , Thomas Baker< no role >
George Wood< no role > , William Slater< no role > , John Spearing< no role > John Pickard< no role >
John Cocks< no role > , William Scurr< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Robert Farrer< no role > , Edward Lewis< no role > ,
John Osborn< no role > , Walter Tristion< no role > , George Fort< no role > , and
William Evans< 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 Mary Cunliffe< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Cunliffe Wife
of Richard Cunliffe< no role > (Suspected to have been lately Murdered)
on the fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
departed this Life, by the Visitation of God, in a natural Way,
to Wit, of a Rupture on the left side, and not by any hurt
or Injury received from the said Richard Cunliffe her said
Husband, or any other Person to the Knowledge of the said
Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Joseph Jarvis< 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. Prichard< no role > Coroner

Jos Jarvis< no role >
Foreman}




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