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

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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 William Newman< no role > the Sign of the wheat sheaf in poland Street in the Parish
of Saint James 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 1799
in the fortieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,
by 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 Chales Duchemin of Normandy in the Kingdom of France 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 Charles Duchemin< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Charles Duchemin a Native of the
Parish of [..] Serceil in Normandy in the Kingdom of
France on the eleventh day of December in the year
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
To Wit in Poland Street aforesaid died, by the Visitation
of God in a natural Way To Wit of an Apoplexey and
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 [mark]
Jas. Hartley< no role > [mark]
John Richard< no role > [mark]
Henry Christer< no role > [mark]
Robt. Canham< no role > [mark]
John Wells< no role > [mark]

Thos Ricom< no role > [mark]
John Beech< no role > [mark]
George Knowles< no role > [mark]
William Norman< no role > [mark]
Alexr: Mc Craith< no role > [mark]
Thos Morgan< no role > [mark]
Jos Chandler< no role > [mark]

Geo: Phillips< no role > [mark]




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