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

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Image 653 of 83127th September 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 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 seventh day of Septembr. 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 David Staboe then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Walter Pencutt. Richard Holloway< no role > Richard Sanford< no role > ,
Walter Evans< no role > , Thomas Wailand< no role > Joseph Kepperd< no role > , John Clarke< no role > .
George Goring< no role > , Thomas Peley< no role > , George Richards< no role > , David Nicholson< no role > ,
Stephen Nocus< no role > , William Sellers< no role > . Peter Conoley< no role > , William Sheldon< no role > ,
and George Barland< 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 David Staboe came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said David
Staboe on the said Twenty seventh day of September.
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid, within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, departed this Life
by excessive Drinking and not from any Hurt.
Injury or violence done or committed by any Person
whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Walter Pencutt 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

Walter Penutt< no role > [mark] Foreman




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