City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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Image 69 of 6975th March 1785


City of 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 Martin in the Fields
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 March in the twenty Fifth
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 Ann Williams< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Hyndes< no role > , George Gowring< no role > , Joseph Collins< no role >
James Urquhart< no role > , John King< no role > , Benjamin Longmore< no role > , James
Drummond
< no role > , John Winstanley< no role > , Thomas Broville< no role > , William Webb< no role > ,
John Fike< no role > , Andrew Mattheson< no role > , George Fell< no role > , Francis Kellor< no role >
and James Barker< 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 Ann Williams< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Williams< no role > ,
Suspected to have ben Murdered, on the Fifth day of
March in the Year aforesaid died suddenly in a
certain Court called Russell Court in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
That no Marks of Violence appeared on her Body
and that the said Ann Williams< no role > Departed this Life in a
natural Way, and not by any Injury received from
John Williams< no role > or any other Person whatsoever to
the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Robert
Hyndes
< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Robt. Hyndes Foreman




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