City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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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 the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
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 twenty ninth
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
on View of the Body of John Bradley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Dutton< no role > , George Paulin< no role > , Robert Young< no role > , John
Duree
< no role > , Joseph Knight< no role > , Joseph Hudson< no role > , Francis Cluly< no role > ,
Isaac Bignold< no role > , William Stamp< no role > , Alexander Shaw< no role > , Robert Knight< no role >
Robert White< no role > , John Powell< no role > , John Harris< no role > and
John Oddy< 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 John Bradley< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Bradley< no role > suspected
to have been murthered, on the Twenty eighth day of May in the
Year aforesaid, at Night, died suddenly in a certain Street called
the Strand , in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, that the said John Bradley< no role > came
not to his Death by any violent means whatever, but departed
this Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said John Dutton< 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

John Dutton< no role > [mark] Foreman




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