City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

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to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord
the King at the Goal or Prison of Bridewell in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster within the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fourth day of December in the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third Cliffe grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender
of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas Prichard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King
for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Thomas Guy< no role > then and there lying Dead,
upon the Oath of George Allen< no role > , John Burney< no role > , Thomas Purdue< no role > , John Matthews< no role > ,
Stephen Boucher< no role > , William Crakan< no role > , John Thompson< no role > , Robert Watson< no role > , Thomas
Hester
< no role > , Benjamin Baldwyn< no role > , William Smith< no role > , George King< no role > , and Robert Anderson< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn
and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how, and by what means the said Thomas
Guy
< no role > came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Guy< no role > being
a Prisoner in the Goal or Prison of Bridewell aforesaid, in the Parish aforesaid
within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Twenty second day of December
in the Year aforesaid, at the Goal or Prison aforesaid, departed this Life by the
[..] of God, it [..] Way, to Wit, of a Fever, and not otherwised.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the George Allen< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and he rest of his said Fellow
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year
and Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role >
George Allen< no role >




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