City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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Image 140 of 50521st April 1764


City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middelsex}
to Wit.


An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign
Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the
Twenty first day of April 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 Robert Griffiths< no role > then and there lying Dead
upon the Oath of William Watson< no role > , Thomas Troak< no role > , Edward Griffin< no role > , John Drew< no role > , Michael Whytel< no role > , James
Caddan
< no role > , George Peisley< no role > , Richard Mainstone< no role > , John Wright< no role > , Samuel Gunnell< no role > , Thomas Clarke< no role > ,
William Carpenter< no role > , David Morrice< no role > & James Rawlings< no role > , good and lawfull 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 Robert Griffiths< no role > came to his Death do
upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Griffiths< no role > on the Nineteenth day of April
in the Year aforesaid, was and for a long time before had been, very weak and ailing,
And that the said Robert Griffiths< no role > on the said Nineteenth day of April in the Year
aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, departed
this Life through the Inclemency of the Weather, and the Want of the Common
Necessaries of Life, 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
William Watson< 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 .

Wm Watson< no role > [mark] Foreman




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