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

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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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of August 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 a New born Female Child then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of David Wenham< no role > , Robert Crane< no role > , Lawrence
Tingdall
< no role > , Thomas Peirpoint< no role > , James Munday< no role > , John
Cook
< no role > , William Thornton< no role > , Joseph Holmes< no role > , James
Payne
< no role > , Robert Prior< no role > , Joseph Brooks< no role > , and Thomas
Cummins
< 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 is Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the twenty seventh day of August
in the Year aforesaid, the said Female Child was found in a certain
leaden Stink trass in the dwelling House of Daniel Bargeman< no role >
situate and being in Charles Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence
appeared on her Body, and that the said female Child was
Still born,

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as
the said David Wernham< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

David Wernham< no role > [mark] Foreman




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