City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1777 - 30th December 1777

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Image 96 of 63027th February 1777


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 Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of February in the Seventeenth Year
of the Regin 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 City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Elizabeth Penfold< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Wray< no role >
John Wild< no role > , Thomas Mitchall< no role > . Thomas Tout< no role > , William Wood< no role > , John Smith< no role >
John D'Jersey< no role > , John Miller< no role > , Duncan Mc. Intosh< no role > , John Leeson< no role > ,
John Murphy< no role > and John Leeson< 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 Elizabeth Penfold< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Penfold< no role > being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell , in the said Parish of
St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid
on the Twenty Sixth day of February 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
[..]
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 Wray< no role > [mark] Foreman




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