City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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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 first day of March in the thirty seventh year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Peter Wilder< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Robert Mortimer< no role > John Weatherfield< no role > Joseph Badhouse< no role >
William Collinces< no role > John Stead< no role > Andrew Doyle James Hayward< no role > William
Butterfield Samuel Read< no role > John Forbes< no role > Thomas Gale< no role > Robert Prior< no role > and Andrew
Hevay 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 Peter Wilder< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Peter Wilder< no role > on the said first day of March in the year aforesaid
being a prisoner in his Majestys 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 Peter Wilder< no role > on the said first day of March in the
year aforesaid within the prison aforesaid 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 Robert Mortimer< 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.

Robert Mortimer< no role > [mark]




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