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

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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 Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of July 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 Edward Towser a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John West< no role > , Edward Streete< no role > , John Carless< no role > , William Fisher< no role > .
James Meares< no role > , John Riffen< no role > , William Pacy< no role > , Charles Meares< no role >
John Dimond< no role > , George Brooks< no role > , Richard Darking< no role > , William
Paterson
< no role > , John Jackson< no role > , Robert Carpenter< no role > , John Chatwend< no role > .
and Thomas Deves< 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 Edward Twser came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Towser< no role > being
a prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid, in the Parish
aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the
Nineteenth day of July in the year aforesaid, at 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 John West< 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.
above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John West [mark] his mark
Foreman [mark]




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