City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 177 of 79227th March 1797


City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex ,}


to wit,
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Edward Rogers< no role > the Sign of the Starr & Garter Green Street Leicester Fields Parish of
St. Martins in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the twenty seventh day of March 1797
in the thirty Seventh 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 Antony Gell< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City
and Liberty, on View of the Body of a Boy unknown then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 Boy unknown came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Boy unknown on the twenty sixth
day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and
in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in the River Thames
was found drowned, but how and by what Means
the said Boy unknown came there no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the said Jurors.

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Wm Murford< no role >
Jon Wells< no role >
S. Tilbury
Edwd Hodson< no role >
John Millard< no role >

Edwd Weyler< no role >
James Wightman< no role >
Matthias Newmarch< no role >
Thomas Lavell< no role >
James Barrington< no role >
James Baseley< no role >

Richard Alberry< no role >
John Seton< no role >
Henry Coter< no role >
Robert Lyatt< no role >
Thomas Reggar< no role >
Thos Green< no role >




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