City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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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 Second day of July in the twenty seventh
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 City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Stephen Rosetti< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Hardie< no role > , Samuel Hellings< no role > , George Carlow< no role > , William
Aubrey
< no role > , Meyrick Williams< no role > , James Wright< no role > John Fawens< no role > , Thomas
Gledstones
< no role > , William Anderson< no role > , Simon Davis< no role > , Dudley Crofts< no role > ,
Peter Reed< no role > , George Barclay< no role > , John Edwards< no role > , John Wiles< no role > ,
William Lustey< 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 Stephen Rosetti< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Stephen Rosetti
(suspected to have been murdered) on the Thirtieth day of June
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid suddenly departed this Life
by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any
violence or Injury from any Person whatsoever to the
Knowledge of the said Jurors

In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Robert Hardie< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Robert Hardie [mark] Foreman




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