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 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 Fourteenth day of October 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 Thomas Spiller< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Thomas Evans< no role > , Benjamin Blake< no role > , John Shepherd< no role >
Evan Edwards< no role > , John Phillips< no role > , Thomas Dorwell, Joseph Hooper< no role >
Richard Axley< no role > , James Hill< no role > , Robert Roobard< no role > , William Crouch< no role >
and William Gamble< 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 Thomas Spiller< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Spiller< no role > on the
Thirteenth day of October in the year aforesaid died suddenly in a
certain Stable Yard called Burton Muse , situate and being in the
said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and that the said Thomas Spiller< no role > departed this
Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any
violence or Injury from any Person whatsoever to the Knowledge
of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Thomas Evans< 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

Jno. Evans< no role > Foreman




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