City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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Image 141 of 68611th March 1766


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 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 Eleventh day of March in the SixthYear 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 William Davis< no role > ,
Edward Woodcock< no role > , William Paylatt< no role > , Edward Robins< no role > , Francis Bursill< no role > , Robert Sayer< no role > , William
Evans
< no role > , Nathaniel Jackson< no role > , William Dossatt< no role > , John Hookes< no role > , Daniel Luckhurst< no role > , and Thomas Lewis< 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 Woman Unknown Came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That
the said Woman Unknown on the Ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid, was
found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames , to wit, at Mill Bank, in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Woman
Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on her Body, but how or by what
Means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to the
Jurors. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said William
Davis
< 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 > Coroner .

Wm. DavisForeman




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