City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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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 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 Twenty fifth day of June in the twenty fifth
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 Jane Griffiths< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of George Topham< no role > , John Pullen< no role > , John Frew. Thomas
Leigh
< no role > , James Haw< no role > , Christian Folk< no role > , William Thompson< no role > ,
Cornelius Pye< no role > , David Chaplin< no role > , William Wyatt< no role > Thomas
Edwards
< no role > , Henry Hammond< no role > , John Studwell< no role > , John Sangdow< no role > ,
and Timothy Essex< 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 Jane Griffiths< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Griffiths< no role >
(suspected to have been murdered) on the twenty fourth day
of June in the Year aforesaid died suddenly in a certain
place called Smith Street, in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said
Jane Griffiths< no role > having no Marks of Violence appearing on her
Body, and departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a
natural way, and not by any violent Means to the knowledge
of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said George Topham< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

George Topham< no role > Foreman




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