City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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Image 578 of 75020th September 1773


City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Tothill Fields Bridewell in the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of September in the Thirteenth 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, on View of the Body, of
James Serjeant< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Smith
< no role > , Andrew Rogers< no role > , Edmund Bengoff< no role > , John Poole< no role > , Joseph Allen< no role >
William Styles< no role > , Arnold Greenwald< no role > , Finley Mc. Donald< no role > , Thomas Dewett< no role > , Edward
Deacon
< no role > , William Langton< no role > , George Bartlett< no role > , Thomas Bailey< no role > , William Nesham< no role > ,
William Agate< no role > , Thomas Walker< no role > Wm Williams< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
Chosen, 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 James Serjeant< no role > came to
h is Death. do upon their Oath say, That the said James Serjeant< no role > a Prisoner
in Tothill Fields Bridewell situate and being in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the said
Twentieth day of September in the Year aforesaid departed this
Life, in Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid in a natural Way, to wit,
of a Fever, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Joseph Smith< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in
their presence have to his Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Joseph Smith< no role > Foreman




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