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

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Image 25 of 71219th February 1782


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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 Nineteenth Day of February 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< no role > one of the Coroner s of Our said Lord
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Henry Sheppard< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of James Holmes< no role > , Thomas
Dobson
< no role > , Andrew Blackie< no role > , Robert Winn< no role > , Israel Pottinger< no role > and John Woodward< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said County duly chosen and David Donaldson< no role >
Edward Warrington< no role > Alexander Wilson< no role > , William Cockran< no role > John Newton< no role > and
John Bond< no role > Prisoners in the Prison called Clerkenwell Bridewell
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 Henry Sheppard< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Henry Sheppard< no role >
being a Prisoner in Clerkenwell Bridewell aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid departed this Life At the said Prison 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 James Holmes< 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.
James Holmes< no role > [mark] Foreman




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