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

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Image 397 of 77823rd June 1790


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 third day of June 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 William Hinksman< no role > a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of David Shaw< no role > , George Taylor< no role > , William Vincent< no role > , John
De
< no role > Jersey, William Lee< no role > , William Cook< no role > , George Murdock< no role > , James
Beane
< no role > , Anthony Fabry< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > , Thomas Spooner< no role >
and Martin Thomas Wood< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said William Hinksman came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Hinksman being a
Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell , in the said Parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the said
Twenty third day of June 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 David Shaw< 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

David Shaw< no role > [mark] Foreman




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