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

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Image 606 of 83118th 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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighteenth 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 a new born Male Child then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Legg< no role > , Richard Waklin< no role > , James Skeet< no role > ,
Richard Kirkham< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Charles Lewis< no role > , William Gibson< no role > , John
Budd
< no role > , John Bates< no role > , Henry Mitton< no role > , John Millener< no role > , Thomas-
Marchant
< no role > , and Richard Hunt< 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 Male Child came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Male Infant
Child on the seventeenth day of August in the Year
aforesaid, was found dead in a certain Dust Hole at
Pimlico in the said Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no
Marks of Violence appeared on the Body, and that the
said Male Infant Child was still bom

In Witness whereof. as well
the said Coroner , as the said Thomas Legg< 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 mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thomas Legg< no role > Foreman




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