City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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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 called the Gatehouse, 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 Twenty third day of January in the fourth
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 John Francis Letonell< no role > Clerk, a Prisoner, then and there lying Dead, upon the
Oath of James Franklin< no role > , Thomas Moses< no role > , Isaac Day< no role > , Thomas Griffiths< no role > Michael
Wilcox
< no role > , William Colton< no role > , Thomas Freeman< no role > , Thomas Dyer< no role > , George Davis< no role > , William Porter< no role > , James
Arnold
< no role > Nathaniel Skeat< no role > , and David Woodleigh< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty
duly chosen, 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 John Francis Letonell< no role > came to his Death, Do
upon their Oath say, That the said John Francis Letonell< no role > on the Twenty first
day of January in the Year aforesaid, being a Prisoner in the Goal or Prison
aforesaid, situate 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 John Francis
Letonell in 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 James Franklin< no role >
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 Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

James Franklin< no role > Foreman




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