City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

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Image 74 of 64812th February 1771


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 Twelfth day of February in the Eleventh 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
A Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Moore
< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , Thomas Rippon< no role > , William Evans< no role > William Nobes< no role > , John
Sturges
< no role > , Thomas Lynn< no role > , Samuel Gold< no role > , Thomas Spensley< no role > , John Farthing< no role > ,
John Cock< no role > and David Jerrard< 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 Man Unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Man Unknown on the
Eleventh day of February in the Year aforesaid, at a certain Place
called Avery Farm , situate in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, departed this Life through the Inclemency
of the Weather, 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 James Moore< 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 .

Jas. Moore< no role > Foreman




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