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

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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 Fifth Day of December in the 23d. 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
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body Mary Morton< no role > and William Burnam< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of
William Waylen< no role > William Lock< no role > John Howlett< no role > James Sinclair< no role > Richard
Ashley and Andrew Blackie good and lawful men of the said County duly chosen
And John Barnes< no role > Jonathan Lockwood< no role > Saville Robinson< no role > Bignell Potter< no role >
Henry Haslam< no role > and Thomas Nabbs< 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
Mary Morton< no role > and William Barnes< no role > came to [..] their Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Morton< no role >
being a Prisoner in Clerkenwell Bridewell aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid on the First Day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Prison
aforesaid departed this Life through old Age Weakness and a Decay of Nature
and not otherwise And That the said William Burnam< no role > on this Fifth
Day of December in the Year aforesaid also departed this Life at the said
Prison by the Visitation of God in a natural Way to Wit of an Ague and
Fever and not otherwise

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said William Waylen< 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.

Wm Waylen [mark] Foreman




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