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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth 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 Robert Dunn< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Cartwright< no role > John Eves< no role > Avery Vokins< no role > Nathaniel
Mann
< no role > John Edger< no role > , Samuel Daniel< no role > , Christopher Day< no role >
William Freestone< no role > , Thomas Burt< no role > Joseph Ashmore< no role > William
Cartwright
< no role > and Michael Castledon< 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 Dunn< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Dunn< no role > (suspected
to have been murdered on the twenty fifth Day of June in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid (to wit) in the Workhouse belonging to the
said Parish died Suddenly by the Visitation of God in a
Natural way, and not by any Hurt or Violence whatsoever
to the knowledge of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said John Cartwright< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jno Cartwright [mark] Foreman




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