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

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Image 174 of 6974th April 1785


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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the furth day of April 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 John Tobias Le Motte< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of George Fisher< no role > , John King< no role > , Jonathen Stiles< no role > ,
John Linney< no role > , William Neves< no role > , John March< no role > , George Holmes< no role >
Isaac Clemmitt< no role > , Robert Andrews< no role > , James Ayrs, Thomas
Watkins
< no role > , Andrew Barr< no role > , Robert Davis< no role > , James Dytes
and James Croft< 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 John Tobias Le Motte came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Tobias
Le Motte, (suspected to have been lately Murdered, on
the said fourth day of April in the Year aforesaid
was found dead in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that the
said John Tobias Le Motte came not to his Death by
any violent Means or Manner whatsoever, to the
Knowledge of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner ,
as the said George Fisher< 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 Hand and Seals, the Day Year and Place
abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

George Fisher< no role >




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