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

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Image 444 of 50529th October 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 Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Colligiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Ninth day of October
in the Fifth 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 Heckman< no role >
(suspected to have been Murdered) then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Charles Coulon< no role > , Robert Parker< no role > Phineas
Deseret
< no role > , John Worgman< no role > , Richard West< no role > , John Carpenter< no role > Thomas Henderson< no role > , Robert Greyson< no role > Thomas Owens< no role >
John Drew< no role > , Michael Whitell< no role > William Heith< no role > , Daniel West< no role > , William Harvey< no role > , Thomas Burridge< no role > ,
Thomas Bryce< no role > and Richard Mainster< 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 [..]
the said Mary Heckman< no role > came to her Death do upon their Oath Say, That on the
Twenty seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid, the said Mary Heckman< no role > was found Dead
upon the Floor in her lodging Room or Apartment in the dwelling House of Anthony Smith< no role >
situate and being in Princess street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid: That the said Mary Heckman< no role > for a long time before had labored and
languished under a grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, an Asthma; And that on the said
Twenty seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid she the said Mary Heckman< no role > departed this Life, by the Visitation
of God, in a natural Way, to wit, of the Disease and Distemp [..] foresaid, and not by any
hurt or injury received from any Person or Persons to the knowledge of the said Jurors.
no Marks of Violence appearing in her Body, In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said Charles Coulon 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 abovewritten

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Charles Coulon< no role > [mark] Forman




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