City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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Image 111 of 69712th March 1785


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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of middlesex , the Twelfth day of March in the twenty 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, on
View of the Body of Thomas Bloxam< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Hammett< no role > , John Ansley< no role > , John Hacket< no role > ,
William Jones< no role > , James Singey< no role > , Samuel Morris< no role > ,
William Prestige< no role > , William Fisher< no role > , John Watkins< no role > ,
James Matthews< no role > , Robert Starkey< no role > and Charles Carey< 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 Thomas Bloxam< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Bloxam< no role >
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridwell, in the
Parish aforesaid Within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, on the Eleventh day of March in the Year
aforesaid at Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid
departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way.
to Wit, of a Fever and not otherwise

In Witness
Whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said James
Hammett
< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf
of himself and the rest of his fellows, in their Presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place abovementioned

Tho. Prichard< no role > Coroner
James Hammett< no role > Foreman




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