City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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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 first day of February 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 , Corner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Mary Hovey< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of David Wernham< no role > , George Mann< no role > , John Lumb< no role >
Michael Palmer< no role > , Nathan Silcock< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , Thomas
Barlow
< no role > , Alexander Hollyday< no role > , Samuel Strong< no role > , William Varnell< no role >
William Davis< no role > and James Mulcaster< 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 Mary Hovey< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Hovey on the
Nineteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid was found dead in a
back Yard belonging to the Dwelling House of John Danier< no role > situate in
Bird Street 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 Mary Hovey< no role > departed this Life by the Visitation
of God in a natural Way and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said David Wernham< 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

Davd. Wemham< no role > [mark] Foreman




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