City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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

An Inquisition Indednted, 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 Twentieth day of October in the twenty eighth
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 William Tomkin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Powell< no role > , Stephen Haines< no role > , John Lane
William Gibson< no role > , Owen Davis< no role > , John Bennet< no role > , Richard
Harden
< no role > , James Pearson< no role > , Joseph Dashwood< no role > , Thomas Cothborth< no role >
John Pool< no role > and Robert Hooker< 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 William Tomlin< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Tomlin< no role > a Prisoner
in Tothill Fields Bridewell , on the Eighteenth day of October in
the Year aforesaid, at the said Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, departed this Life
by the Vistitation of God in a natural Way.

In Witness whereof as well the said
coroner , as the said John Powell< 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 above
-mentiond.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Powell< no role > [mark] Foreman




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