City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 75 of 8587th February 1799


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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 seventh day of February in the thirty ninth 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 Sleorgan< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Forster< no role > ,
Edward Williams< no role > , John Chaffey< no role > , Nathaniel Bannister< no role > , John Chettle< no role > , John Parrott< no role > , William
Heath, William Hunt< no role > , James Vollar< no role > , William Fairley< no role > , Samuel Bonner< no role > , and Thomas
Wright, 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 Sleorgen came to his death say upon their oath that
the said John Sleorgen on the fifth day of February in the year aforesaid being a
prisoner in His Majestys prison of the Fleet there situate and being then and there
sick and languishing It so happened that the said John Sleorgen on the same day and
year last aforesaid 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 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 >




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