City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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Image 82 of 53815th February 1774


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 St. Pater Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of February in the Fourteenth Year
of the Regin 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Field< no role > ,
Charles Toole< no role > , John Mcinlay< no role > , Simon Labell< no role > , James Andrews< no role > , Christopher Golding< no role > ,
Edward Reynolds< no role > , John French< no role > , Thomas Pratt< no role > , James Pover< no role > , Richard Howell< no role > , Daniel
Fraser
< no role > , William Hagg< no role > and John Saunders< 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 Man unknown came to
his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the
Fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid, died suddenly in a Street
called Bridges Street , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appeared on his Body,
and that the said Man unknown departed this life in a natural
Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury whatever, to the Knowledge,
of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said John Field< 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 > Coroner
Jno Field< no role > Foreman




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