City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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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
Parish of St. Martin 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 Seventeenth day of September in the Second 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 Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on View of the Body of Mary Long< no role > then and there lying Dead and suspected to have been Murdered upon the Oath of George
Beeston
< no role > , Constantine Tuelinks< no role > Samuel Dickers< no role > , Tobias Williams< no role > , Andrew Mc. Lorry< no role >
George Hall< no role > , James Dixwell< no role > , Henry Timbrell< no role > , Jacob Boussow< no role > , Samuel Steward< no role > , John
Miller
< no role > , Francis Pittsalla< no role > , John Boone< no role > and James Hogg< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly sworn and
Charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how and by what means the said Mary Long< no role >
came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Sixteenth day of September in the Year
aforesaid, in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty aforesaid
in the County aforesaid, the said Mary Long< no role > by the Visitation of God, in a fit of an
Apoplexy, and by no violent Means or Manner whatsoever, Died a natural Death.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said George Beeston< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors [..] behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in
their Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year
and Place first above mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Mr. Beeston [mark] Foreman




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