City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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Image 502 of 85724th August 1799


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 Joseph Matley< no role > the Sign of the Bell in new Tothill Street in the parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the twenty fourth day of August 1799
in the thirty ninth 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 Potts< 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 Potts< no role > came to h er Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Mary Potts< no role > on the twenty second
day of August in the year aforesaid at the Parish
and in the Liberty aforesaid died by the Visitation
of God in a natural Way, to wit of the Veneual
Disease, and not other wise

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 }
Richd Testick< no role >
John Lane< no role >
Robert Conan< no role >
James Brye< no role >
John Baylis< no role >

John Jones< no role > ,
Wm Charouneau< no role >
John Fraux< no role >
Jonathan Waite< no role >
Wm Baldwin< no role >
John Griffith< no role >
Thos. Batkin< no role >
T Procter




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