City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1791 - 31st December 1791

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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 Twelfth day of January in the Thirty first
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 Fitter otherwise Jones< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Thomas Stanley< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , Samuel Morris< no role > , Lionel Pendegras< no role >
John Humphries< no role > , John Lethbridge< no role > , David Davis< no role > , James Friar< no role > , Robert
Muniton
< no role > , Samuel Sedgwick< no role > , Robert Hood< no role > , James Judith< no role > and
Samuel Hyby< 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 Fittler< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Fittler otherwise
Jones being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell situate in the
Parish of Saint Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid
on the said Twelfth day of January in the Year aforesaid at Tothill
Fields Bridewell within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said Thomas Stanley< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Thos. Stanley< no role > [mark] Foreman




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