City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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Image 623 of 85714th October 1799


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 in the Dwelling Housein the poor House
within the Liberty of Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of October
in the thirty ninth 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 Anthony Gell< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City
and Liberty, on View of the Body of a new born Female Child then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 new born Female Child came to her Death, do upon
their Oath say that Elizabeth Giggs< no role > of the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty
and County aforesaid single Woman , on the tenth day of October in the
year aforesaid, being then and there big with the said new born Female
Child, afterwards to Wit, on the same day and Year at the Parish aforesaid
in the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the Bed Chamber wherein Elizabeth
Singleton
< no role > slept, the said Female Child seventy and without the Know-
ledge of the said Elizabeth Singleton< no role > , from her Body by the Providence
of God, did bring forth alive which said Female Child by the Laws and
Customs of the Kingdom, was a Bastard Child, and that the said new
born Female Bastard Child departed this Life soon after its Birth
in a natural Way, and not from any Hurt, Violence or Injury
received from the said Elizabeth Giggs its Mother or any other
Person, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors, nor had the said
new born Female Bastard Child, any Marks of Violence
appearing on its Body

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner } [mark]
James Savage< no role > [mark]
Geo. Maddison< no role > [mark]
Wm. Pone< no role > [mark]
Robt. Golphin< no role > [mark]
Evan Jones< no role > [mark]
George Reynolds< no role > [mark]

John Nicholes< no role > [mark]
Robert Jackson< no role > [mark]
William Gardner< no role > [mark]
Richd. Davis< no role > [mark]
W. Hall [mark]
Richd. Neeley< no role >

John Davis< no role >
Jno. Harrison< no role > [mark]
Walter. Pridergast< no role > [mark]




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