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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the First day of November in the Twenty Sixth
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 Alexander Brown< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Radcliff< no role > John Eaton< no role > , John Willson< no role >
Emery Codd< no role > , John Mitchell< no role > , James Garbett< no role >
William Wyndham< no role > , Thomas Kent< no role > , Joseph Richards< no role > , Thomas
Martin
< no role > , Joseph Clarkson< no role > , Robert Hutchinson< no role > , Samuel Collett< no role > , John
Freeman
< no role > and Thomas Cublett< 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 Alexander Brown< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Alexander Brown< no role >
suspected to have been Murdered, on the Twenty eighth day
of October in the Year aforesaid, at the said Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, departed this life
in a natural way and not of the Hurt lately named
by the said Alexander Brown< no role > , to the Knowledge of the
said Jurors.

In Witness whereof aswell the said
Coroner , as the said Richard Radcliff< 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 mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Richd Radcliff< no role > Foreman




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