City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

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Image 277 of 101915th April 1789


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Magnus
the Martyr in the Ward of Bridge in London aforesaid on the fifteenth day of April 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 or 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 Mary Pikenow here lying dead by the oath of John Burger< no role > , Robert Hoveley< no role > Charles Piercy< no role > , James Balaam< no role > George Tyler< no role >
John Reynolds< no role > Thomas Cole< no role > William Witkins< no role > , John Hill< no role > William Norris< no role > , John Reiley and William Taylor< no role > good and lawful Men of
the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen noorn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how
and in what manner the said Mary Tike same to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary Tike then lately before
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River Thames and in and with the Waters of the said River was
Suffocated and drowned Of which said suffocation and drowning the said Mary Tike did then [..] lately before die
And so the Jurors Aforesaid upon the Oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Tike in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Burgen< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the art of his fellows in their presence have to this
Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

John Burgen< no role > [mark] Foreman




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