City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 397 of 63115th August 1795


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An Inquesition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the
fifteenth day of August in the thirty 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
Shelton Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on
view of the body of Richard King< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Bollard< no role > Robert Mortimore< no role >
John Bonner< no role > John Jones< no role > Joseph Badhouse< no role > William Drew< no role > Daniel Veare< no role > Samuel Reader William
Collins William Turby< no role > John Bardham< no role > and William Butterfield< 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 Richard King< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that the said Richard King< no role > on the fifteenth day of August in the year aforesaid being a
prisoner for debt in his Majesty's prison of the Fleet situate in the parish and ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid and being then and there sick and languishing It so happened that the
said Richard King< no role > afterwards to wit on the same day and year aforesaid with the prison aforesaid at London aforesaid
in the parish and Ward aforesaid by the visitation of God died a natural death and by no
violent means or manner whatsoever In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Bollard< no role > 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 first abovewritten.

John Bollard< no role > [mark] Foreman




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