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 Seventh day of December in the twenty fifth
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 Lucas< no role > This name instance is in set 1395. a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of David Davies< no role > James Hemett< no role > , John Skilling< no role >
Robert Love< no role > , Michael Francis< no role > , George Laywood< no role > ,
Thomas Arnold< no role > , Thomas Wetherall< no role > , Samuel Tredwick< no role > ,
Samuel Grimsall< no role > , John Haker< no role > , Richard Carter< no role > , William
Ame
< no role > and William White< 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 Lucas< no role > This name instance is in set 1397. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Lucas< no role > This name instance is in set 1395. being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, on the Seventh day of December 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 David Davies< 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 > [mark] Coroner .
David Davis< no role > [mark] Foreman




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