City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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Image 384 of 68611th July 1766


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
Eleventh day of July in the 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 Richard Westbrook< no role > (suspected to have been Murdered)
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Stackhouse< no role > , John Bray< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > ,
Charles Askew< no role > , Joseph Powell< no role > , Henry Carter< no role > , Jonathan Slocombe< no role > William Gilks< no role > , Samuel Howard< no role >
Samuel Mattam< no role > , Alexander Dow< no role > , John Welch< no role > , John Southern< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen
who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when
how, and by what Means the said Richard Westbrook< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath
say, That the said Richard Westbrook< no role > on the Eighth day of July in the Year aforesaid
and for some days before, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
did labor and languish under a grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever; And that on
the said Eighth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish, and in the Liberty and
and County aforesaid, he the said Richard Westbrook< no role > departed this Life, by the Visitation
of God, in a natural Way, to Wit, of the Disease and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any
Hurt or Injury received from any Person or Persons whatsoever, to the Knowledge or
Notice of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
John Stackhouse Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest
of his said Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place first abovewritten

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm Stackhouse Foreman




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