City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1798 - 28th December 1798

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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 twentieth day of January in the thirty eighth
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 John Weston< no role >
now hew lying dead by the oath of John Forster< no role > , Thomas Jolley< no role > , William Cheesman< no role >
William Collins< no role > , John Fisher< no role > . William Challes< no role > , James Vollor< no role > , Samuel Bonner< no role > , Richard
Bryon, John Danell< no role > , Chilip Butcher< no role > , and William Frazer< 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 John
Weston came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Weston< no role > on the
nineteenth day of January 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
John Weston< no role > afterwards to wit on the same day and year but aforesaid within the prison
aforesaid situate in the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid of the said
sickness and disease died a natural death and by no violent means or manner
whatsoever. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Forster< 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 [mark] Forster< no role > Foreman




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