City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit


An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Goal or Prison of Bridewell situate in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of
Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in
Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of June in the Second 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 Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said
Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Ruth Newman< no role > a Prisoner,
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Avery Vokins< no role > , John Irish< no role > John Prime< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > , John
Winstanley
< no role > , Joseph Baylis< no role > , John Sutherland< no role > , James Wild< no role > , Richard Pawson< no role > , John Slowers< no role > , Robert Bramham< no role > , Your
Honour, James Hodgson< no role > , William Milvill< no role > , John Mollineux< no role > , John Kemp< no role > , David Woodley< no role > George King< no role > & Abraham Terry< no role > Good and lawfull Men of the said
City and Liberty duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for
our said Lord the King,when how and by what means the said Ruth Newman< no role > came to her Death,
Do upon their Oath say, That the said Ruth Newman on the Nineteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid
being a Prisoner in the Goal or Prison of Bridewell in the Parish aforesaid, in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and being then and there Sick and languishing, It so happened that afterwards
the same day, and year last mentioned, the said Ruth Newman within the Goal or Prison aforesaid,
by the Visitation of God, and by no violent Means or Manner whatsoever, died a Natural Death
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Avery Vokins< no role > Foreman, on the
behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

A Vokins Foreman




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