City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1765 - 24th December 1765

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
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 within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Third
day of January in the FifthYear 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, and so forth,
before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman , Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on View of the Body of James Mc. Daniel< no role > a Prisoner, then and there lying Dead,
upon the Oath of Walter Pencutt< no role > , William Bonnick< no role > , Anthony Hudson< no role > , George Tate< no role > , Edward James< no role > ,
Thomas Green< no role > , John Hullam< no role > , William Stamper< no role > , John Harkless< no role > , John Derippe< no role > , Robert Bray< no role > , John Martin< no role >
Thomas Hitchins< no role > , William Lockie< no role > , and Joshua Cuttle< no role > good and lawfull 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 James Mc. Daniel< no role > came to his Death
do upon their Oath say, That the said James Mc. Daniel being a Prisoner in the Goal
or Prison of Bridewell aforesaid, in the Parish City Liberty and County aforesaid;
That the said James Mc. Daniel on the Second day of January in the Year aforesaid, in
and for a long him before had been, very weak and sickly, and that on the said Second
day of January in the Year aforesaid the said James Mc. Daniel departed this Life,
by the Visitation of God, in a natural Way, at the Goal or Prison of Bridewell aforesaid
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Walter Pencutt Foreman of the
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

Walter Pencutt< no role >
Foreman




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