City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

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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 Third day of June 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 Butler Fox< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Gough< no role > , Samuel Mitchell< no role > , Anthony Fabrey< no role > ,
John Hyslop< no role > , James Baret< no role > , Charles Chance< no role > , Joseph Tapley< no role > ,
Thomas Watson< no role > , James Randal< no role > , Henry Wilson< no role > , William
Barnster
< no role > , and Richard Mynton< 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 Butler Fox came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Butler Fox,
(supposed to have been Murdered) on the second day of June
in the Year aforesaid, died suddenly in a certain Place
called Love Lane in the Parish aforesaid, within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and that the said
Butler Fox, came not to his Death by any violent
Means or Manner whatsoever to the Knowledge of the
said Jurors

In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner , as the said William Gough< 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
Wm GoughForeman




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