City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth day of August in the Thirteenth 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 Female Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George
Walker
< no role > , John Edwards< no role > , John Watts< no role > , George Gilham< no role > , Benjamin Johnson< no role > , John Hatton< no role > ,
Joseph Whitridge< no role > , Thomas Vobe< no role > , Charles Kershaw< no role > , Thomas Rutt< no role > , Robert Williams< no role > , John
Fick
< no role > , William Arpin< no role > Seth Kirby< no role > , & Richard Cole< 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 Female Child came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said new born Female Child on
the Twenty Seventh day of August in the Year aforesaid was found
dead in a certain Passage leading out of Lyon's Inn into Wych Street ,
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
That no Marks of Violence appeared on the Body of the said Female
Child, And that the said Female Child died soon after the Birth
in a natural Way, and by no other means whatsoever
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said
George Walker< 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
George Walker< no role > Foreman




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