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

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Image 150 of 85819th March 1799


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Thos Shelton< no role >
Corr


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 Farrington
without in London aforesaid on the nineteenth day of March 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 Cornelius Rose< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of John Forster< no role > , William Collins< no role > , John Fisher< no role > ,
Nathaniel Bannister< no role > , Samuel Bonner< no role > , Charles Bush< no role > , Richard Jimmis, James Venables< no role > ,
Robert Mortimer< no role > , William Butterfield< no role > , Samuel Jacobs< no role > , and John Austen< 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 Cornelius
Rose came to his death say upon their oath that the said Cornelius Rose< no role > on the seventeenth
day of March 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 Cornelius Rose< no role > 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 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 Forster< no role >




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