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

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Image 13 of 71222nd November 1781


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint James
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex the seventeenth Day of [..] in the 22d 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 Edward Umfreville one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Wake< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Alexander Cumming< no role >
Mathew Rokes< no role > John Glover< no role > This name instance is in set 4665. John Parker< no role > Benjamin Morris< no role > Daniel
Daniels Good< no role > and lawful Men of the said County, duly [..] John Barnes< no role >
Thomas Hayes< no role > Samuel Skinnshaw< no role > William Perfect William Gosling< no role >
and William James< no role > then Prisoners in Clerkenwell Bridewell in
the said County
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required,and 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 Wake< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William
Wake on theFifthFifteenth Day of December in the Year aforesaidandbeing a Prisoner in Clerkenwell
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 as the said Coroner, as the said Charles Cumming< 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 abovementioned

E Umfreville [mark] Coronr
Alexr Cumming [mark] Foreman




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