City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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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 Seventh day of January in the Thirtieth
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 William Besborough< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Aaron Loton< no role > , John Woffindine< no role > , William Foster< no role > , James Gordon< no role >
John Lane< no role > , James Bushnell< no role > , William Chapman< no role > , Robert Archer< no role >
William Black< no role > , John Elvidge< no role > , Thomas Hewall< no role > , Richard Hall< no role > , Henry Mc.
Gregor
< no role > , and Joseph Matthews< 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 William Besborough came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Besborough being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the said Parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Sixth 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 Fever and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well
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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Aaron Loton< no role > Foreman




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