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

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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 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 sixth day of December in the twenty sixth
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 Stanton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Christopher Wildman< no role > , John Robinson< no role > , Samuel Rogers< no role > ,
Henry Barnes< no role > , Robert Lloyd< no role > , John Green< no role > , Samuel Bailey< no role > ,
Mathias Bilger< no role > , William Campbell< no role > , Richard Andrews< no role > , Richard
Harding
< no role > , John Salt< no role > Benjamin Hawley< no role > , John Legris< no role > , William
Felton
< no role > , and Robert Barker< 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 Stanton< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Stanton< no role >
(Suspected to have been lately Murdered) on the Twenty fourth
day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the said Parish of
Saint Martin in the Fields , within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, departed this life by the Visitation of God in
a natural Way, and not by any Violence or Injury from
Mary Stanton< no role > Wife of the said James Stanton< no role > or any
other Person or Persons Whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the
said Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said Christopher Wildman< 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. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Christr Wildman< no role > [mark] Foreman




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