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

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Image 94 of 6484th March 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 St. Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of March 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 New born Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Musson
< no role > , William Goff< no role > , Joseph Bayles< no role > , Richard Delton< no role > , Thomas Hitchin< no role > , James
Coleman
< no role > , William Crockett< no role > , Thomas Gudolle< no role > , John Bunee< no role > , James Cairns< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. ,
Richard Sherlock< no role > and John Hepworth< 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 New born Male Child came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said new born Male Child on the
Second day of March in the Year aforesaid was found dead in a certain
Street called Petty France in the Parish aforesaid within the City
Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appeared
on the Body of the said Male Child, and that the said Male Child died
in or soon after its Birth in a natural Way. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said James Musson
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 Palce first abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
James Musson [mark] Foreman




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