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 Country of
Middlesex .
to wit.

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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Maritn in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the collegiate Church of St.Peter, Westminster ,
in the Country of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of October 1792 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 Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of a Man unknown then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Peter Wilson< no role > , John Hay< no role > , Joseph Thorley< no role > , John Thompson< no role > , George
Edward
< no role > , Robert Akinson< no role > , John Clapham< no role > , Samuel Hoskins< no role > , Isaac
Jones
< no role > , Thomas Nigh< no role > , William Cothman< no role > , Tempest Holl< no role > , and
Christopher Lewis< 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 Man unkown came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said Man unknown on the
Eleventh day of October, in the year aforesaid , at the Parish
and in the Liberty aforesaid was then and there suddenly
seized with a violent Apoplectic Fit.And that on the said
Eleventh day of October in the year aforesaid at the parish
and in the Liberty aforesaid, he the said Man unknown
departed this Life by the visitation of God in a natural way
TO Wit of the apopleetie Fit.and that there appeared no
Marks of Violence on the Body of the said Man unknown

In Witness whereof as well the said coroner as the said Peter
Wilson
< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his said Fellows in this presence have to this
Inquisition set their hands and seals and the Day Year and
Place above written.

Anthy Gell< no role > [mark] Coroner

P.Wilson [mark] Foreman




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