City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1770 - 26th December 1770

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Image 468 of 55710th September 1770


City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Tothill Fields 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 Tenth day of September in the Tenth 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
Nicholas Martin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Dodd< no role >
John Stowers< no role > , Gabriel Pearey< no role > , William Gilbert< no role > , Thomas Kitchings< no role > , Thomas
Spencer
< no role > , Richard Sherlock< no role > , John Price< no role > , Claudius Smith< no role > , Thomas Laycock< no role > , John
Richardson
< no role > , William Davis< no role > and John Davel< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, 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 Nicholas Martin< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Nicholas Martin< no role > being a
Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid in the Parish aforesaid
within the City LIberty and County aforesaid, on the Ninth day of
September in the year aforesaid at Tothill Fields Bridewell
aforesaid, departed this Life by the Visitation of God in natural
Way, to Wit, of a Fever and not otherwise, In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Dodd< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Dodd< no role > [mark] Foreman




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