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 Inquisicion Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Kensington in 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 Twenty Sixth day of October in the Thirtieth
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 Ann Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Edward King< no role > , John Roberts< no role > , William Shelton< no role >
James Silvester< no role > , Joseph Hughes< no role > , William Grovers, Richard
Huntley
< no role > , George Vevers< no role > , Richard Miles< no role > , Samuel Smith< no role > , Moses
Griffiths
< no role > and Patrick Cummins< 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 Ann Smith< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Smith< no role > This name instance is in set 348. (Suspected
to have been murthered) on the Twenty Fifth day of October in
the Year aforesaid died suddently at Kensington in the said
Parish of Saint Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid
that the said Ann Smith< no role > came not to her Death by any violent
Meand or Manner whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurrors,
but departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Edward King< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on
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

E King [mark] Foreman




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