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

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City & 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 Thirtieth day of April 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 Sarah Rawlinson< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Perryman< no role > William Crawford< no role > , Richard Ralph< no role >
William Cotterel< no role > , Thomas Edwards< no role > , John Pacey< no role > , James Hammet< no role > ,
Francis Norris< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > , Thomas Pearce< no role > , William
Whitworth
< no role > and James Swann< 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 Sarah Rawlinson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Sarah Rawlinson< no role >
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
at Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid, departed this Life
by the Visitation of God in a Natural Way, to wit, of a
Fever and Jaundice, and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner ,
as the said Robert Perryman< 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 .

Robt Perryman Foreman




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