City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty third day of June in the Fourteenth 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
Mary Kirkwood< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Jordan
< no role > , William Mathews< no role > , Hugh Ramsay< no role > , Christopher Smith< no role > , Robert Forshew< no role > ,
Thomas Tuttle< no role > , Thomas Sanderson< no role > , Francis Hunter< no role > , Robert Swannell< no role > , Peter Harris< no role >
Charles Stewart< no role > and Thomas Furniss< 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 Mary Kirkwood< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said Mary Kirkwood< no role > (suspected
to have been Murdered) on the Twenty first day of June in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, by a fall, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
received a Bruise and Contusion in and upon her Nose, of
which said Bruise and Contusion, and the great loss and effusion
of Blood from her said Nose, she the said Mary Kirkwood< no role > on the
said Twenty first day of June, at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid, [..] upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Mary Kirkwood< no role > , in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune came to her death, and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
John Jordan< 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 [..] Year and
Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
John Jo [..] Foreman




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