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14th February 1760 - 31st December 1760
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Image 60 of 6418th December 1760
Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex
to wit
An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint Paul Covent
Garden within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster the Nineteenth
day of December in the First 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 and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
seven hundred and Sixty . Before John Feary Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of
Westminster aforesaid. Upon a View of the Body of Captn. Jacob Moody then and there Lying Dead by the Oaths of
Alexander Baptist , Samuel Frankland Richard Oldfield , John Bouttals Edward Tanner , Abraham Gorring , Thomas Haynes
John Haynes , Samuel Wilkinson , William Makepeace , Charles Rapen , Joseph Willmot , Thomas Jones , John Clansell
Edward Clarke , Samuel Clarke , and William Metcalf Good and Lawfull Men of the
said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how when where and in what
manner the said Capt, Jacob Moody come to his Death Say upon their Oaths, That on Thursday the eighteenth day
of December Instant about five o'Clock in the Morning the said Captain Jacob Moody being in a Sedan Chair, and being
greatly Intoxicated with Liquor it so happened that the said Captain Jacob Moody in his Passage from the House of
Mr. Robert Derry in Charles Street Covent Garden in the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden to the Royal Bagnio in
Long Acre in the Parish of St. Martin in the fields in the Liberty and County aforesaid by means of the Liquor
aforesaid was Suffocated, of which said Suffocation the said Captain Jacob Moody instantly Died. And so the said
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths aforesaid do say That the said Captain Jacob Moody the day and Year aforesaid
in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid in manner as aforesaid come to his Death and not otherwise In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their
hands and Seals the day Year and at the place abovesaid
Jno. Feary Coroner
Alex. Baptist Foreman
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