City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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City of Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex

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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 Eight day of February 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 Mary Price< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Edmonds< no role > James Seymour< no role > , Alexander Praed< no role > ,
John Taylor< no role > , James Hammutt< no role > John Skilling< no role > , Henry Silk< no role > ,
Thomas Horn< no role > , Timothy Essex< no role > , John Chetwynd< no role >
Charles Carey< no role > and Thomas Peirce< 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 Mary Price< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Price< no role >
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, on the Seventh day of February
in the Year aforesaid in Tothill Fields Bridewell
aforesaid departed this Life by the Visitation of
God in a natural Way. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Edmonds< 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

Tho Edmonds< no role > Foreman




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