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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Second day of February 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 James Potts< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Henry Fleming< no role > Richard Swell< no role > , John Jones< no role > ,
Charles Buer< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William Chapman< no role > , Thomas Ashwright< no role >
Simon Watts< no role > , Joseph Greensill< no role > , Daniel Cooper< no role > , Ricd
Davies
< no role > , James Robertson< no role > , William Browne< no role > , and
Joshua Henderson< 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 James Potts< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Potts< no role > ,
suspected to have been Murderd, on the Twentieth
day of February in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
departed this Life in a natural Way, and not by
any Injury received from John Potts< no role > or any
other Person to the knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Henry Fleming< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Henry Fleming< no role > [mark] Foreman




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