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

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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 Dwelling House of Edward plank< no role > the Sign of the Ship in Swallow Street Parish of
St. 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 thirteenth day of December 1797
in the thirty eighth 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 Mary Pearson< no role > 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 Mary Pearson came to h er Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Mary Pearson on the eleventh day of
December at the year aforesaid at the Parish & in the Liberty
aforesaid. To Wit at the House of her the said Mary
Pearson in Princes Street Hanover Square died by
the Visitation of God in a natural Way & not otherwise.

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

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }
Wm Booth< no role >
Robt Marshall< no role >
St Smith
Thos Bowlker< no role >
Phillip P [..]

Henry Nichols< no role >
Thomas Boone< no role >
James Tidbury< no role >
Jno Locke< no role >
R. Banks
John Gurney< no role >

Alex Monro< no role >
Samuel Wimbush< no role >




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