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

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Image 129 of 69714th 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 Eighteenth 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 Joly de St. Valier then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Samuel Ray< no role > , John Davies< no role > , John Sowton
James Hammett< no role > , Hercules Pasco< no role > , Joseph Phillips< no role >
William Fisher< no role > , Robert Porrant< no role > , Thomas Dewick< no role >
Richard Cox< no role > , Thomas Pearce< no role > and Dennis Anderson< 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 Joly de St. Valier came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said Joly diesnt. Valier
being a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell
aforesaid in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, on the said
Eighteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid
at Tothill Fields Bridewell aforesaid, departed this
Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Samuel Ray< 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. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Samuel Ray< no role > [mark] Foreman




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