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

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Image 637 of 94911th September 1790


London
T: Shelton
Corr.


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 Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the Eleventh day of September 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 of Southwark on view of the Body of William Gunsley< no role >
Ayherst now here lying dead by the Oath of Cornelius Crowley< no role > , William Stitt< no role > , William Collins< no role >
James Rogers< no role > , John Stead< no role > , Williams Bermott, Bartholomew Fitzgerald< no role > , William Greenfield< no role > , Stephen
Roberts, Arthur Hicks< no role > , John Davis< no role > and David Wright< 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
[..] in what manner the said William Gunsley Ayherst [..] his death say upon their
Oath that the said William Gunsley Ayherst being a Prisoner in His Majestys Prison of the Fleet
on the tenth day of September in the Year aforesaid was and for a long time before had been sick and
diseased in his Body and of such Sickness and disease did languish and languishing did live
until the said tenth of September in the year aforesaid when he the said William Gunsley Ayherst of
at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid of the said Sickness and disease did die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William Gunsley Ayherst 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 Cornelius Crowley< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on 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
first above written

Corls Crowley [mark] Foreman




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