City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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Image 654 of 75015th November 1773


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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of November in the Fourteenth 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
Buly< no role > the Wife of Benjamin Bladen< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Cullis< no role >
Robert Murless< no role > , William Oare< no role > , George Dixon< no role > , John Cook< no role > , George Mills< no role > , Joseph Twichell< no role > ,
Thomas Wharton< no role > , James George< no role > , Thomas Price< no role > , Robert Bunney< no role > , Thomas Rogers< no role > , John
Woodward
< no role > , John Plumbridge< no role > and John Higgs< 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 Rampton< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Buly Bladen (suspected
to have been Murdered) on the Twelfth day of November in the
Year aforesaid, at the said Parish of Saint John the Evangelist
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, departed this life
by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any
Hurt or Injury from the said Benjamin Bladen< no role > her said
Husband, or any other Person whatsoever, to the Knowledge
of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said John Cullis< 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 First above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Cullis< no role > [mark] Foreman




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