City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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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 St. 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 twentieth day of April in the twenty ninth
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 new born male Child then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Nicholas Philipson< no role > , James Breatherton< no role > , Robert Gihon< no role >
Daniel Gardiner< no role > , Edward Cooper< no role > , Samuel Luton Rivire< no role > , William Mirnes< no role >
Philip Milwere< no role > , William Vernham< no role > , Richard Goodwin< no role > , James Palterson< no role >
John Anston< no role > and Samuel Furley< 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 New born male Child came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said Male Child, (suspected to
have been murthered) on the Fifteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid
at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, was Dead born.

In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Nicholas Philipson< 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
N. Philipson [mark] Foreman




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