Miles, William

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SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Miles Esq of Pinner proposed member 22.7.1791 by John Frost 2nded John Lodge Batley

GODWIN DIARY: Bosville, Frost & col Miles 15.11.1794 at Newgate.

Bosville, Frost and Miles also appeared together in John Augustus Bonney's prison diary for 15.11.1794, though Bonney and Godwin did not record each other and each noted several others at Newgate on the same day.

William Miles of the Grove, Pinner, Middlesex died 23.1.1802 age 80, formerly a Colonel in the 2nd Regt of Guards who resigned rather than fight the Americans (Jackson's Oxford Journal 6.2.1802, Morning Chronicle 30.1.1802). His will PCC 1802 began "Blessed with a sound mind memory and understanding and truly thankful for the same to the supreme Being the magnanimous and mighty incomprehensible author of the wonderful universal system at all times similarly perceptible intelligent and visible through all his divine works and with a true sense of the Reverence Respect affectionate Awe and gratitude due to him, I William Miles a Citizen of the World and an inhabitant of the hamlet of Pinner" and requests to be buried "not in any Church or Churchyard and without the interference of any of the priesthood or itinerant preachers of any denomination whatsoever, in as plain a wooden shell as the most indigent and most humble of my fellow creatures are usually and in and without any or with no other covering than compliance with fanciful decency may render necessary or legal injunction may dictate, being disinclined through any inducements whatever to have interred with the insignificant dust of hiuman substance that which might contribute to the better sustenance and comfort of a living indigent or truly industrious labouring fellow creature". Middlesex Sessions April 1791 petition of William Miles of Pinner Esq