City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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Image 417 of 46523rd December 1788


London
and
Southwark
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To wit}


T. Shelton
Corr.


exd.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London, that is to say, at the
Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty third day of
December in the thirtieth 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 Etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the city of
London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Owen Hughes< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of samuel Oughton< no role >
James Moody< no role > John Stead< no role > John Cobb< no role > David Wright< no role > Cornelius Crawley< no role > William Eades< no role > John Allen< no role > Thomas Curfey Edward
Morris John Crabb< no role > John Common and William Chandler< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly
chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Owen Hughes< no role > came to his
death say upon their oath that the said Owen Hughes< no role > being a Prisoner in >his Majesty's prison of the Fleet on the twentieth day of
December in the year aforesaid was and for a long time before had been sick and diseased in his body and of such sickness and
disease did languish until the said [..] twentieth day of December when he the said Owen Hughes< no role > at the Parish and
Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid of such witness and disease did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Owen Hughes< no role > by the Visitation of God died a natural death and by no violent means or method whatsoever
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Oughton the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 [mark] first above written.

Saml Oughton< no role > [mark] Foreman




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