City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1763 - 30th December 1763

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City & 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 Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the thirty first day of May in the
third 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 James Fogarty< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of William Clugh< no role >
Richard White< no role > , Robert Smith< no role > , Robert Piddington< no role > , James Mason< no role > , William Heburn< no role > , Richard Burt< no role > , Samuel
Harris
< no role > , Joseph Hathaway< no role > , John Child< no role > , John Chatwind< no role > Peter Gowe< no role > , Thomas Chowles< no role > and George Stanford< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn
and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how and by what Means the said
James Fogarty came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Fogarty
on the Twenty ninth day of May in the Year aforesaid, being a Prisoner in the Goal or
Prison of Bridewell aforesaid, in the Parish aforesaid within the City 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 James Fogarty within
the Goal or Prison aforesaid, by the Visitation of God, and by no other Means or Manner
whatsoever, died a natural Death. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as
the said William Clugh< 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 abovementioned

Thos Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Wm. Clugh< no role > Foreman




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