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.


In Inquisition Indented taken for [..] Sovereign Lord the King
at the Prison of Bridewell in the Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean [..] Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Seventh day of January
in the Fifth 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 and so forth, before
Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty an View of
the Body of Isabella Smith< no role > a Prisoner, then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Stanly
< no role > , Samuel Higley< no role > , Samuel Harris< no role > , William Haywood< no role > , Jeremiah Connolly< no role > , John
Fowler
< no role > , Thomas Hemmings< no role > , William Mornby< no role > , Robert Bramham< no role > , George Field< no role > , Joseph Moore< no role > ,
James Wild< no role > , and Robert Burn< no role > ,good and lawfull Min of the said Liberty duly chosen who
being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when howard by what Mean
the said Isabella Smith< no role > came to her Death, do upon their Cath say, That the said
Isabella Smith< no role > being a Prisoner in the Goal or Prison of Bridewell aforesaid, in the
Parish City Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Isabella Smith< no role > on the Sixth
day of January in the Year aforesaid, was and for several days before had been very
weak and sick, and that on the said sixth day of January in the Year aforesaid, the
said Isabella Smith< no role > died, by the Visitation of God a natural Death, in the Goal or
Prison of Bridewell aforesaid. In Witness [..] of as well the said Coroner, as
the said Thomas Stanly< no role > 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 .

Thos StanlyForeman




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