City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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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 of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of January in the twenty ninth
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 Hannah Robertson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Benjamin< no role > , William Miles< no role > , Charles Williams< no role > ,
John Gray< no role > , James Gardiner< no role > , William King< no role > , William Hunt< no role >
John Curtis< no role > , Robert Browning< no role > , Thomas Hashell< no role > , Samuel Studwick< no role >
and Fisher Andrews 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 Hannah Robertson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Hannah Robertson< no role >
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the said Parish
of Saint Margaret within the Liberty & County aforesaid on the
fifth day of January in the Year aforesaid at Tothill Fields
Bridewell aforesaid departed this Life by the Visitation of God
in a natural Way (to wit) of a Dropsy and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said James Brynnan< 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
James Brynnan< no role > Foreman




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