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

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Image 679 of 76614th November 1789


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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourteenth day of November in the thirtieth
Year of the Regin 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 a Man unknwon then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Harvis< no role > , George Chadwick< no role > , Mark Hildreth< no role >
Daniel Rosier< no role > , Richard Hewit< no role > , William Sterks< no role > , Francis Gilbert< no role >
John Holmes< no role > , Robert Hardly< no role > , Thomas Aslen< no role > , Adam Brown< no role >
and William Mattocks< 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 Man Unknown came to
his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown (suspected
to have been murtherd,) on the Thirteenth day of November in the
year aforesaid, between the Hours of Twelve and one in the Morning
was found in a certain Street called barnaby Street in the said Parish
of Saint James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and that the
said Man unknown at the said Parish Liberty and County departed
this Life by the Visitation of god in a natural way, and not by any
violence or Injury to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Joseph Jarvis< 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 at their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Jos Jarvis< no role > Foreman.




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