City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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An Inquisitions Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Brides in the Ward of
Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty first day of November
in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark
on view of the body of George Tommins< no role > now hew lying dead by the oath
of William Cheeseman< no role > , William Chalons< no role > , James Venables< no role > Joseph Badhouse< no role > ,
William Collins< no role > , John Fisher< no role > , Nathaniel Banister< no role > , William Buterfield< no role > , Richard
Warren,
< no role > Joseph Pyle< no role > , John Daniel< no role > James Voller< no role > and Samuel Bonner< no role > , good
and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen
sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner
the said George Tommins< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said George
Tommins on the twentieth day of November in the year aforesaid being a prisoner
in his Majestys prison of the Fleet situate in the parish and ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid and being then and there sick and diseased in his body It so
happened that the said George Tommins< no role > on the said twentieth day of November in the year aforesaid
within the prison aforesaid situate in the parish and ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid of the said sickness and disease did die And So the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said George Tommins< no role > within the prison aforesaid by the visitation of God
died a natural death and by no violent means or manner whatsoever
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroneras the said [..] as the said William
Cheeseman
< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 written

Wm. Cheesman< no role > [mark] Foreman




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