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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fifth day of October in the Twenty Sixth
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 George Watson< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Aaron Loton< no role > , Robert Brent< no role > , James Meares< no role > ,
William Allein< no role > , Peter Dyram< no role > , Joseph Burton< no role > , John Amland< no role >
William Fisher< no role > , John Richards< no role > , William Barard< no role > , Charles
Williams
< no role > , and Thomas Dewich< 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 George Watson< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Watson< no role > being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid, in the
Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on
the said Twenty fifth day of October in the year aforesaid,
at Tothill fields Bridwell aforesaid, departed this life
by the Visitation of God in a natural way. To wit, of
a Fever, and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof aswell the
said Coroner , as the said Aaron Loton< 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 mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Aaron Loton< no role > Foreman




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