City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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City of Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex .

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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 fourteenth day of January in the twenty fifth
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 Foster< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Abbott< no role > , William Piper< no role > , John Leathers< no role > ,
Joseph Dixon< no role > , John Barrett< no role > , John Moore< no role > , Richard
Edleston
< no role > , William Pattison< no role > , Daniel Boyce< no role > , William
Woods
< no role > , Henry Collin< no role > and Esau Alfred< 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 Foster< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Foster< no role > on the
Eleventh day of November in the Year aforesaid was standing
in a Place called the New Way in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, And being in Liquor, It
so happened that the said Mary Foster< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell down, and thereby received a Mortal
Fracture in and upon the Left Leg of has aforesaid Mary
Foster
< no role > , of which said mortal Fracture she the said Mary
Foster
< no role > at the said Parish of Saint Margaret with in the
Liberty and County aforesaid until the Twelfth day of
January in the Year aforesaid languished and lived, On
which said Twelfth day of January in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
she the said Mary Foster< no role > of the mortal Fracture aforesaid did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
That the said Mary Foster< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her death
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
James Abbott< 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

James abbott< no role > Foreman




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