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The Geneva Convention, 1949
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Court of the King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions on Prisoners in the...
Catalogue reference: KB 14
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KB 14
Inquisitions taken on dead prisoners in the King's Bench Prison at Southwark by the King's coroner and attorney, filed with related documents. There is a major gap in the series from 1750 to 1771. The later inquisitions are on printed forms, but...
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- KB 14
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of the King's Bench: Crown Side: Coroners' Inquisitions on Prisoners in the King's Bench Prison
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1746-1839
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Description (What the record is about)
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Inquisitions taken on dead prisoners in the King's Bench Prison at Southwark by the King's coroner and attorney, filed with related documents.
There is a major gap in the series from 1750 to 1771. The later inquisitions are on printed forms, but the earlier are handwritten. The whereabouts of inquisitions of the same kind taken after 1839 are unknown.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier inquisitions are in the indictment files: KB 9 KB 10 KB 11
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 37 file(s)
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- Topics
- Prisons
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The king's coroner had been holding inquisitions on the bodies of King's Bench prisoners since at least the mid fourteenth century.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10018/
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