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

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Image 592 of 63122nd December 1795


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An Inquisition 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 twenty second day of December in the thirty sixth 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< 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 James Knight< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of John Bollard< no role > William Drew< no role > John Jones< no role > Henry Merefield< no role >
Joseph Badhouse< no role > William Austin< no role > William Turley< no role > Thomas Bird< no role > William Lewis< no role > Robert
Mortimore Daniel Veare William Greenfield< no role > and William Sandford< 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 James
Knight came to his death say upon their oath that the said James Knight< no role >
on the twenty first day of December in the year aforesaid being a prisoner in the prison
of our Lord the King of the Fleet situate in the Parish and Ward aforesaidon London aforesaid
in London aforesaid and being then and there sick and languishing It so happened that
afterwards on the same day and year last mentioned the said James Knight< no role > within the
prison 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 above written.

John Bollard< no role > [mark] Foreman




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