City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh day of August in the twenty fourth
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 Joseph Godfrey< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Michael Castleton< no role > Henry Stone< no role > , John Pitheon< no role >
Thomas Beard< no role > , Richard Burtinshaw< no role > , George Moon< no role > ,
Abner Michenes< no role > , John Watkins< no role > , Mark Teal< no role > ,
James Mathews< no role > Samuel Coalshaw< no role > and Charles
Remnant
< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chose, 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 Joseph Godfrey< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their oath say , That the said Joseph Godfrey< no role > being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, on the said Eleventh day of August 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 Michael Castleton< 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
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Mc: CastledenForeman




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