City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1796 - 30th December 1796

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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 fifth day of January 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 Richard Drabble< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Austin< no role > John
Jones John< no role > Badham Joseph< no role > Badhouse William Collings< no role > William Drew< no role > Thomas Bird< no role >
Daniel Neare< no role > William Lewis< no role > Robert Mortimore< no role > James Rogers< no role > Samuel Reader< 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 Drabble< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that the said Richard Drabble< no role > on the twenty third day of January in the year
aforesaid being a prisoner in the prison of our Lord the King 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 Drabble< 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 William Austin< 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.

Wm. Austin [mark] Foreman< no role >




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