City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652040092

Image 92 of 50530th March 1764


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 Saint James within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the
Thirtieth day of March 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 Our said City and Liberty, On View of the Body of Ralph Wilson< no role > then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Richard Truman< no role > , Phillip Harman< no role > , John Wright< no role > , Robert Bell< no role > ,
Benjamin Dalton< no role > , John Reed< no role > , William Constable< no role > , John Phillips< no role > , John Harrison< no role > , James Puddisant< no role > , James
Grindly
< no role > , Robert Sparling< no role > , John Grey< no role > and Robert Drummond< no role > , good and Lawful Men of the said 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 Ralph Wilson< no role > came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say, That on the Twenty eighth day of March in the Year aforesaid the said
Ralph Wilson< no role > died suddenly in a certain Street called Jermyn Street in the said
Parish of St. James , within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, by a Fit
of an Apoplexy or other sudden Visitation of God, That he came not to his Death by
any violent Means or Manner whatsoever, And that no Marks of Violence
appeared on the Body of the said Ralph Wilson< no role > . And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Ralph Wilson< no role > in Manner
aforesaid came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner, as the said Richard Truman< no role > 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 > [mark] Coroner .

Richard Truman< no role > [mark] Foreman




View as XML