City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1765 - 24th December 1765

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City & 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. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of
January 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 Jane, whose Sir name is Unknown, suspected to have been Murdered, then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of George Randall< no role > , Michael Player< no role > , Richard Burton< no role > , Thomas Bower< no role >
John Pinchbeck< no role > , James Lewis< no role > , William Curtis< no role > , John Hounsfield< no role > , John Long< no role > , Michael Gano< no role > , William
Cave
< no role > , John Rothwell< no role > , and Richard Beach< 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 Jane (Sir name Unknown) came to her Death, do
upon their Oath say, That on the fourteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid, the said
Jane, whose Sir name is unknown, was found Dead in a Yard before and adjoining
to the dwelling House of George Randall< no role > Gentleman situate and being in five Field Bow [..]
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Jane
on the said fourteenth day of January was, and for a long time before has been very we [..]
and inform, And that on the said fourteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid,
the said Jane there died by the Visitation of God a natural Death, and not by any Hurt
or Injury received from any Person or Persons whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said
Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said George Randall< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellow
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day year
and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

George Randall< no role > Forman




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