City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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10th January 1780 - 30th December 1780

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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 of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the thirteenth day of January in the Twentieth 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
John Farmer< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Skillin
< no role > , John Boulton< no role > , David Davies< no role > , Thomas Cowley< no role > , John
Hawkins
< no role > , John Tindall< no role > , Daniel Baynham< no role > , Samuel Clay< no role > , William
Muchlow
< no role > , Ralph Glover< no role > , Robert Child< no role > , James Smith< no role > George Grant< no role >
and John Rowland< 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 John Farmer< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Farmer< no role >
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid
in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, on the
thirteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid
at Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid departs 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 John Skillin< 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
abovementioned.

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .
John Skillin< no role >
Foreman}




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