City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

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Image 183 of 8311st March 1786


City & Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovererign 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 of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the Counrty of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of March 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 sorth, before Thomas
Prickard
< no role > , Gentle man, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Charles Rogers< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Sutherland< no role > , John Griffith< no role > , John Heming< no role > ,
John More< no role > , Thomas Ferguson< no role > , John Henry< no role > , Mathias
Robinson
< no role > , Thomas Hashall< no role > , Charles Evans< no role > , Duncan Watson< no role > , James
Cosby
< no role > , Robert Sampon< no role > & Thomas Thompson< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by that what Means the said Charles Rogers< no role > came to
h is Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Charles Rogers< no role >
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the Parish
aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid
on the Nineteeth day of March in the Years aforesaid
at Tothill fields Bridewell Aforesaid, Departed this
Life by the Visitation of God in a Natural way To Wit,
of a Mortification in his Feet.

In Witness whereof as well the
said Coronor as the said John Sutherland< 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 first above mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jno Sutherland< no role > [mark] Foreman




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