City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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Image 612 of 7508th October 1773


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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret , (Vizt. in Tothill Fields Bridewell
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of October in the Thirteenth 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
Sarah Lowen< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Ketley
< no role > , William Francis< no role > , John Hackman< no role > , William Allen< no role > , John Backshaw< no role > ,
Thomas Blanch< no role > , Henry Wright< no role > , David Poundsby< no role > Thomas Pearce< no role > , Henry Neale< no role > ,
Rice Evors< no role > and John Nunneley< 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 Sarah Lowen came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah Lowen being a
Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid, in the Parish Liberty
and County aforesaid, on the said Eighth day of October in the Year
aforesaid at Tothill Fields 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 William Ketley< 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 abovewritten.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

William Retley< no role > Foreman




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