City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1769 - 27th December 1769

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Image 41 of 4977th February 1769


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 Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of February in the Ninth 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
Catherine Harris< no role > suspected to be Murdered then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Page< no role >
John Ford< no role > , Robert Williams< no role > , Aaron Bourne< no role > , Daniel Rowles< no role > , Barnaby
Darley
< no role > , John Hill< no role > , George Lyon< no role > , John Tilby< no role > , John Hartley< no role > , Felix Neil< no role > , William
Keys
< no role > , William Jones< no role > and John Lucas< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Catherine Harris< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Catherine Harris< no role > on the
Sixth day of February in the Year aforesaid, in a certain Street called
Exeter Street , situate and being in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, died suddenly; That no Marks of Violence appeared
on her Body, and that the said Catherine Harris< no role > departed this Life by the
Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury
from any Person whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Page< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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 .

Jno. Page< no role > Foreman




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