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

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Image 579 of 83116th August 1786


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 Sixteenth day of August 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 Catherine Roberts< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Morris Marsault< no role > , William Cartwright< no role > , Richard
Masson
< no role > , Richard Waddup< no role > , George White< no role > , James Wilson< no role > ,
Thomas Munday< no role > , John Noble< no role > , Isaac Swan< no role > , Thomas
Hitchins
< no role > , John Roff< no role > , Allen North< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > ,
and Thomas Lambert< 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
the King, when, how, and by what Means the said Catherine Roberts< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Catharine Roberts< no role >
(Suspected to have been Murdered) on the fourteenth day
of August in the Year aforesaid, in the Workhouse of the
said Parish of St. Margaret 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
Edward Roberts< no role > Husband of the said Catharine Roberts< no role >
or any other Person to the Knowledge of the said Jurors

In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner , as The said Mom's Marsault
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
M. Marsault [mark] Foreman




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