City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1783 - 30th December 1783

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Image 441 of 61812th September 1783


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 County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of September in the twenty third
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 Jane Smith< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Scott< no role > , Anthony Fabry< no role > , Edward Hawkins< no role >
John Brown< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , Thomas Gwillim< no role > ,
Henry Loton< no role > , John Ludlam< no role > , William Whitworth< no role >
Robert Ellis< no role > , William Woods< no role > , and Thomas Alden< 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 Jane Smith< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said Jane Smith< no role > being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, on the said Twelfth day of September
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 Thomas Scott< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Thos ScottForeman




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