City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say, at the
Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Forringdon without in London aforesaid on
the sixteenth day of February 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and
Borough andof Southwark on view of the Body of Elizabeth Evans< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath
of Robert Jones< no role > , Cornelius Crowley< no role > , Bartholomew Fitzgerall< no role > , William Still< no role > , William Barnett< no role >
John Stead< no role > , George Pratt< no role > , David Wright< no role > , Arthur Hicks< no role > , Robert Marsh< no role > , Richard Warren< no role > and
Volentine Fairweather< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here
duly chosen sworn and charged to Inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what
manner the said Elizabeth Evans< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that the said Elizabeth
Evans on the fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid and for some time then before being a Prisoner in His
Majestys Prison of the Fleet situate in the Parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
and being sick and diseased in her body of a certain Contagious fever of the said Sickness and
disease did languish until fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid and languishing
did live On which said fourteenth day of February in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward
aforesaid in London aforesaid within the Prison aforesaid she the said Elizabeth Evans< no role > of such
Sickness and disease did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Elizabeth Evans on the said fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid at
the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid by the visitation of God died a natural
death and by no violent means or method whatsoever In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Robert Jones< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and
the rest of his fellows in their presence here to this Inquisition set this hands and Seals
the day year and place first above written

Robt Jones [mark] Foreman




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