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 Twenty Eighth day of November in the Thirty Second
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 John Hill< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Samuel Strong< no role > , Joshua Powell< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , John Foster< no role >
John Shippey< no role > , Samuel Fry< no role > , Thomas Hall< no role > , Joseph March< no role >
William Wyald< no role > , Francis Wilburn< no role > , John Sebthorp< no role > , Joseph Gulley< no role >
and William Mortlock< 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 John Hill< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty seventh day of November
in the year aforesaid the said John Hill< no role > died suddenly in the Publick
Highway at Tryburn Turnpike in the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of
Violence appeared on the Body and that the said John Hill< no role > departed
this Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way-

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Samuel Strong< 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

S Strong [mark] Foreman




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