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

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Image 496 of 50524th December 1764


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 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 fourth day of December in the Fifth 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 Prichard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said
Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Ann Linwood< no role > a Prisons
then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of George Allen< no role > , John Bunney< no role > , Thomas
Purdue
< no role > , John Matthews< no role > , Stephen Bouchet< no role > , William Crakan< no role > , John Thompson< no role > , Robert
Watson
< no role > , Benjamin Baldwyn< no role > , Thomas Hester< no role > , William Smith< no role > , George King< no role > and Robert Anderson< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said 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 Ann Linwood came to her Death Do upon their Oath say That the
said Ann Linwood being a Prisoner in the Goal or Prison of Bridewell aforesaid
in the Parish aforesaid, within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Twenty
second day of December in the Year aforesaid at the goal or Prison aforesaid
departed this Life by the Visit [..] of God, in a Natural Pay to Wit, of a Fever,
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
George Allen< 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

George Allen< no role > [mark] Foreman




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