Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 646 of 7123rd November 1786


Middlesex
(To Wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign LORD the KING,at the House
of Correction in the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of
Middlesex , the third Day of November in the twenty seventh 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 Richard Collett< no role >
one of the CORONER S of our said LORD the KING for the said County, on View of the Body of
John Churchill< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Marsh< no role > , George Bates< no role > , William Chapman< no role > Henry
Hawley
< no role > , Walter Perry< no role > & John Dennison< no role > , good and lawfull men of the
said County, duly chosen as by Law is required, And of Jonas Sayer< no role >
George Hawkins< no role > , Thomas Amos< no role > , George Simpson< no role > , Joseph Oakes< no role > & Thomas Watson< no role > ,
Prisoners within the said Prison, which said lawfull men and prisoners
good and lawfull Man of the said County, duly chosen and whobeing then and there duly sworn
and charged to inquire, for our said LORD the KING, when, how and by what Means, the said
John Churchill< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Churchill< no role > , being Prisoner
in the House of Correction aforesaid, in the Parish and County
aforesaid, on the first Day of November in the Year aforesaid,
at the House of Correction aforesaid, departed this Life, by
the Visitation of God in a natural Way (to wit) of a Fever,
and not otherwise

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said CORONER as the said John Marsh< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in their
Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first above-written.

Richd: Collett< no role > [mark] Coroner [mark]
Jno Marsh [mark] Foreman [mark]




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