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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of Augt. 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 William Norman< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of James aldous< no role > , Richard Seaton< no role > , John May< no role > , Henry Gale< no role >
Robert Mitchell< no role > , Robert Hardy< no role > , William Clark< no role > , William Heath< no role > , John
Spence
< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > John Archer< no role > , John Burch< no role > , Alexander Peters< no role > , Ralph
Mazier
< no role > , Stephen Night< no role > , David Phillips< no role > Jacob Bell< no role > , Christopher Anderson< no role >
William Crossley< no role > and Charles Redding< 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 William Norman< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Forman< no role > on
the said Sixteenth day of August in the year aforesaid died
suddenly in a certain Street called Peter Street in the said Parish
of Saint James within the Liberty and County aforesaid and that
the said William Norman< no role > departed this Life by the Visitation of
God in a natural Way and not by any Violence or Injury
done to him by any Person whatsoever to the Knowledge of
the said Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said James Aldous< 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
James Aldous< no role > Foreman




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