City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1791 - 31st December 1791

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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 Saint Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty third day of April in the Thirty first
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 Francis Upham< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Robert Sinclair< no role > , Joseph Withers< no role > , Rober Cullagh< no role >
James Paul< no role > , Henry Nash< no role > , John Goold< no role > , Philip Richards< no role >
Malum Fullerton< no role > , William Burnce< no role > , James Young< no role > , James
Hulme
< no role > and Thomas Toms< 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 Francis Upham< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Francis Upham< no role >
(suspected to have been poisoned) on the Twenty second day
of April in the Year aforesaid at the said Parish of Saint
Paul Covent Garden within the Liberty and County aforesaid suddenly died by a Fit of Apoplexy in
a natural Way and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Robert Sinclair< 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
Robert Sinclair< no role > [mark] Foreman




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