Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 651 of 71224th January 1788


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the at the House of Correction in the Parish of Saint
James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fourth Day of January in the Twenty eighth 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, Etc, before Richard Collett< no role > one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the County,on View of the Body of James Evans< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Walter Parry< no role >
Charles Williams< no role > , Thomas Cullen< no role > Jame Thomas Gummery< no role >
Thomas Collins CullenAndrew [..] and Samuel Mecho,
good lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen as by Law is request And of Robert Evans< no role > , David
Richards, Dennis O Donough, John Raphes< no role > , John Sayer< no role > , and
Thomas Amos< no role >
Prisoners within the said Prison, which said lawful Men and Prisoners being then and there duly Sworn and charged, to enquire
for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said James Evans< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said James Evans< no role > ,
being Prisoner in the House of Correction aforesaid, in the Parish and
County, aforesaid, on the Twenty third Day of January in the Year
aforesaid, at the House of Correction aforesaid, departed this Life by
the Visitation of God in a natural Way (to wit) of a Violent Cold,
and not otherwise

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Walter Parry< 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 and Year first above mentioned.

Richd: Collett< no role > [mark] Coroner [mark]
Walter Parry [mark] Foreman [mark]




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