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 twenty first day of July 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 City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of
Elizabeth Hughes< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Francis Cann< no role >
,
Alexander Henderson< no role >
,
Peter Fozerd< no role >
,
Richard Thickener< no role >
,
Richard Oakes< no role >
,
John Palin< no role >
,
Robert Anetsons< no role >
,
Thomas Smith< no role >
,
John Chapple< no role >
,
Edward
Cartwright< no role >
,
William Turner< no role >
, &
John Collinwood< 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
Elizabeth Hughes< no role >
came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
Elizabeth Hughes< no role >
(suspected to have been murdered) on the twentieth day of July
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty & County
aforesaid departed this Life, by the visitation of God in a natural
Way and not from any violence or Injury by
Thomas Penny< no role >
or
any other person whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Francis Cann< 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
Francis Cann< no role >
, [mark] Foreman