City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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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 Ann
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Second day of January in the twenty seventh
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 Mary Nechols< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Barrett< no role > , John Derbyshire< no role > , William Bailey< no role > Haygarth
Hodson
< no role > Joseph Firchet< no role > , Thomas Goodave< no role > , William Lansley< no role > , Adam
Maclean
< no role > , John Cameron< no role > , Robert Greer< no role > , Joseph Andrews< no role > , Edward
Carver
< no role > , Richard Chapman< no role > , Thomas Bevington< no role > , James Wyatt< no role > ,
and Thomas Thornton< 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 Woman unknown came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say

That on the forth day of January in the year
aforesaid, the said woman unknown died suddenly in a certain Place
called Compton Street , in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appear'd on her Body
and said that the Woman unknown departed this Life by
the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said John Barrett< 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 > [mark] Coroner

John Barrett< no role > Foreman




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