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

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Image 378 of 47011th October 1780


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 of St. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh day of October in the Twentieth 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 said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Ann Petro< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Samuel
Ray
< no role > , David Davies< no role > , John Smith< no role > , James Blackgrove< no role > ,
James Brown< no role > , George Livesay< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , Henry
Wright
< no role > , Thomas Peirce< no role > , John Moore< no role > , John Chewter< no role >
and Edward Nunn< 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 Ann Petro came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Petro being a
Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the said
Eleventh 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 Samuel Ray< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Samuel Ray< no role > Foreman




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