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

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Image 650 of 71222nd January 1788


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the House of Correction in the Parish of Saint James
[..] ell in the County of Middlesex , the twenty second Day of January in the Twenty eighth 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, Etc. 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 William Watson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard Dabbs< no role >
George Brown< no role > , Joseph Shelton< no role > , John Rowley< no role > Robert West< no role > , and
Thomas Penton< no role >
good lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen as by Law is required, And of Richard Evans< no role > , David
Richards, Dennis O Donough, John Rayner< no role > , Jones Sawyer< no role > and
Thomas Amos< no role >
Prisoners within the said Prison, which said lawful Men and Prisoners being then and there duly Sworn and Charged, to enquire
for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said William Watson< no role >
came to his Death, Do upon their Oath, say, That the said William
Watson, being Prisoner in the House of Correction aforesaid, in the
Parish and County aforesaid, on the Nineteenth Day of January 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 Consumption and general Decay, and not otherwise

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Richard Dabbs< 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 and Year first above mentioned.

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




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