City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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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 House of Edward Spice< no role > the Sign of the Feathers in Dean Street parish
of St. Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the third day of January 1798
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 Edward Lamport Swaby< 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 Edward Lamport Swaby came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Edward Lamport Swaby on the
first day of January in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in
the Poor House died by the Visitation of God in
a natural Way and not otherwise.

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 }

Chas Connellan< no role >
A Miller
Wm Baldwin< no role >
Josuah Thorne< no role >

The [mark] Mark
of John Morris< no role > }

John Gillcot< no role >
John Adams< no role >
Robert Crisp< no role >
John Keate< no role >
George Fricketts< no role >
Peter Nash< no role >
Thos Hawkins< no role >

John Sim< no role >




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