City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1796 - 30th December 1796

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Image 473 of 67717th September 1796


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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride's in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the seventeenth day of September in the thirty sixth 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 Cross< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Claw< no role > Henry Woodford< no role > Roger
Devey
< no role > Gardner Hoare< no role > John Forbes< no role > James Hill< no role > Thomas Bowgin< no role > John Miller< no role > Benjamin
Lawrence
< no role > James Daussey< no role > Arthur Allen< no role > James Mulvany< no role > Benjamin Barrett< no role > and Thomas
Willson
< 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 William Cross< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said
William Cross< no role > on the Sixteenth day of September in the year aforesaid was sick and diseased
in his body of which said sickness and disease the said William Cross< no role > on the said Sixteenth
day of September in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said William
Cross 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 John Plaw< 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

John Plaw< no role > [mark]




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