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

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Image 508 of 58720th November 1787


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 twentieth day of November in the twenty eighth
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 James Bray< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Dunford< no role > , Joseph Goodwin< no role > , John Thoms< no role >
William Squibb< no role > , Mark Philips< no role > , Thomas George< no role > , John Murfey< no role >
John Clark< no role > , Anthony Fabrey< no role > , Thomas Hime, John Brooks< no role >
and John Taylor< 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 James Bray< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said James Bray< no role > on the said
twentieth day of November in the Year aforesaid being in Tothill
Fields in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty
and County aforesaid and in the Mind and Cowdung
in the said, Fields Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
was then and there suffocated and strangled of which said
Suffocation and Strangling he the said James Bray< no role > then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do says that the said James Bray< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Dunford< 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 > Coroner

John Dunford< no role > Foreman




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