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 Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighteenth day of March 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 Woman, name unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Scott
< no role > , Aaron Loton< no role > , Thomas Griffin< no role > , Henry Nash< no role > , James Baker< no role > , Job Dakin< no role >
Michael Castleden< no role > , William Carter< no role > , William Skining< no role > , William Keatley< no role >
Robert Ellis< no role > , and Joseph Niblow< 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 Woman name unknown came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Woman name unknown to the Jurors
on the Fourteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in
the Liberty and in the County aforesaid to wit at a certain place called the Horse Guards was found with
a Mortal Bruise or Waind on her Head accidentally occasioned by a Fall or from some Carriage violently
running against the Head of her the said Woman name unknown to the Jurors, of which said Mortal
Bruise or Wound she the said Woman name unknown to the Jurors from the said Fourteenth day of March
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid
and also at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing
did have untill the Sixteenth day of the some Month in the same Year on which said Sixteenth day of
March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint Margaret aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid
to wit in the Westminster Hospital of the said Mortal Bruise or Wound did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Woman name unknown to the Jurors accidentally casually and by Misfortune
came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on
behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos. Scott< no role > [mark] Foreman




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