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of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo555">Midsdex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65225_date86">Twenty<lb></lb>
eighth day of March 1785</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo556">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo557">Parish of St. Margaret </rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo558">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n489-1">Thomas Wheeler</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ297">Prisoner</rs>
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lying dead in the said Prisoner</p>
<p n="490"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n490-1">William Barton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ298">Surgeon</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That he this day Examined the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n490-2">Thomas Wheeler</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ299">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo559">Tothill Field<lb></lb>
Bridewell</rs>
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, and found no Marks of<lb></lb>
violence thereupon, Says that he has<lb></lb>
visited the Prison every day upwards<lb></lb>
of a fortnight last past, and heard no<lb></lb>
complaint of the Deced being ill, Says<lb></lb>
that, he was informed to day in the<lb></lb>
Prison, that the Deced died there this<lb></lb>
Morning, and Dept. believes that the<lb></lb>
Deced died in a natural Way.</p>
<p n="491"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n491-1">William Barton</rs>
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<p n="492"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n492-1">Henry Wright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ300">Under keeper of Tothill Fields<lb></lb>
Bridewell</rs>
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on his Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n492-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Wheeler</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ301">Deced</rs>
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was brought to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo560">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the Seventeenth day of February last<lb></lb>
being Committed by Mr. Justice Gilbert,<lb></lb>
appearing then to be in Health, That he<lb></lb>
has not at all complained of being ill<lb></lb>
and was Confined in the same Ward with<lb></lb>
other Prisoners that were in Health<lb></lb>
Says that this Morning a little after Eight<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
o'Clock one of the Prisoners came to Dept.<lb></lb>
saying that Wheeler was dying in the<lb></lb>
Taproom, upon which Dept. went there <lb></lb>
and</p>
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