City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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City & Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of
Middlesex To wit.}


In Inquisition indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Goal or Prison of Bridewell in the Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex the Fourth Day of January in the Sixth 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 Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman [..] Coroner of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said Ci ty & Liberty on view of the Body of Edward Draper< no role > a Prisoner
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of David Edwards< no role > , Samuel
Collins
< no role > , Jabez Price< no role > , Job Carey< no role > , William Lockie< no role > , Charles Keene< no role > , James Howard< no role >
John Lomus< no role > , John Doleman< no role > , Abraham Naylor< no role > , William Meason< no role > , Samuel
Harris
< no role > and James Matthews< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen as by law is required, and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire
for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said Edward Draper< no role >
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Draper< no role > being a Prisoner in the Goal
or Prison of Bridewell aforesaid in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty
and County aforesaid, on the Third day of January in the Year aforesaid, at
Bridewell aforesaid, departed this Life by the Visitation of God, in a natural way,
to wit, of a Fever, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said David Edwards< 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 .
David Edward Foreman< no role >




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