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

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Image 114 of 63011th March 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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh day of March 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
William Davies< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Wright
< no role > , Joseph Mathews< no role > , John Davis< no role > , William Iles< no role > , John Davis< no role > ,
John Gardner< no role > , James Pratt< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , John Owen< no role > , John Burgess< no role >
Francis Walters< no role > and Thomas Lamb< 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 William Davies< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Davies< no role > a
Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the said Parish
of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid
on the Tenth day of March in the Year aforesaid at
Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid, departed this Life
by the Visitation of God in a Natural Way
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said John Wright< 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

I Wright [mark] Foreman




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