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 Sixth Day of Decr. 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 the Potts
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Matthew Rokes, John
Glover, Thomas Munsey< no role > , William Chaplin< no role > , Edward Francis< no role > and Thomas
Bruyne
< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said County duly chosen and John
Barnes, William Doolittle< no role > , William Perfect, William Gosling< no role > , Thomas
Sandan and William [..] Sutton< 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 John Potts< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said John Potts< no role >
on the Fourth Day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Prison
aforesaid departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a natural
way

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Matthew Rokes 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.

Matt Rokes< no role > [mark] Foreman




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