City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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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 Twenty ninth day of May in the Thirtieth
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 Robert Cook< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Curtis< no role > , Henry Taylor< no role > , Timothy Connelly< no role > , Robert Archer< no role >
Thomas Duff< no role > , Edward Westbrook< no role > , Edward Young< no role > , Alexander Paterson< no role >
James Price< no role > , Alexander Hodge< no role > , James Towlet< no role > , Robert Hartmall< no role >
and Humphrey Chadwick< 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 Robert Cook< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That said Robert Cook< no role > being a
Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell in the said Parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Twenty
Eighth day of May in the year aforesaid at Tothill Fields Bridewell
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid departed this Life
by the Visitation of God in natural Way (to wit of a Fever and
not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said John Curtis< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on
the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in then presence
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year and Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Curtis< no role > [mark] Foreman




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