City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

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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 Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Second day of January 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, Corner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of William Hutchins< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Gosheron< no role > , William Welchman< no role >
John Cockron< no role > , Joseph Bonner< no role > , Thomas Price< no role > , Thomas
Sission
< no role > , Joseph Hill< no role > , Evan Evans< no role > , John Farrell< no role > , Robert.
Starkey
< no role > , Joseph Masters< no role > . Richard Farrell< no role > , William Simmons< no role >
and Walter Gage< 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 William Hutchins< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Hutchins< no role >
on the said Second day of January in the Year aforesaid was
found dead in Covent Garden in the Parish aforesaid, Within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, and that the said William
Hutchins
< no role > departed this Life through the inclemency of
the Weather and by no violent Ways or means whatsoever
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
he said Thomas Gosheron< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his Tellows, 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

Thos. Gosheron< no role > [mark] Foreman




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