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

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Image 479 of 53827th October 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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Seventh day of October in the Fifteenth 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
Robert Willsworth< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Michall
Downs,See, Thomas Smith< no role > , John Venables< no role > , William
Mumbey
< no role > , Samuel Freeman< no role > , Thomas Hemings< no role > , John Font< no role >
John Sheppard< no role > , Joseph Singleton< no role > , William Finch< no role > , Thomas Booth< no role > , Arthur
Darran
< no role > , Samuel Thorpe< no role > and James Walsh< 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 Robert Willsworth< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Willsworth on
the Twenty sixth day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
departed this life by the Nisitation of God in a natural
Way, and not by any violent Means or manner
whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Michael Downs< 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

Thos. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Michl. Downs< no role > [mark] Foreman




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