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. Margaretin the City of Westminster
within the Liberty
of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
, in the County of
Middlesex
, the Twenty third day of January in the fourth 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 a Woman Unknown then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Abraham Terry< no role >
,
John Stone< no role >
,
Richard Larkin< no role >
John Lawrence< no role >
,
George King< no role >
,
John Carron< no role >
,
William Bond< no role >
,
Reynol Toms< no role >
John Mitchell< no role >
,
James Branian< no role >
,
Nathaniel Gunn< no role >
,
John Jellet< no role >
and
James Wyld< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duly chosen, 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
Woman Unknown came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman
Unknown on the Twenty first day of January in the Year
aforesaid, was found Dead
in a certain Passage leading from Old Palace Yard
into Westminster Hall
, near to a
Place called Cotton Garden, in the Parish aforesaid, within the City Liberty and County
aforesaid, that the said Woman Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on
her Body, bur died through Want and the Inclemency of the Weather, and by
no violent Ways or Means whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Abraham Terry
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place first above written
Tho. Prickard< no role >
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Coroner
.
Abraham Terry< no role >
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Foreman