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

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Image 922 of 101910th December 1789


London


J. Shelton
Corr. [mark]


exd.


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say, at the
Parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the tenth day of December in the
thirtieth 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 Etc 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 Francis Creecroft< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
Joseph Shepherd< no role > Thomas Walker< no role > John Hammett< no role > Richard Meredith< no role > William Cawthorne< no role > Thomas Brown< no role > Thomas
Casson Thomas Burton< no role > John Mullens Joseph Morrice< no role > Charles Oakley< no role > William Williams< no role > and James Preston< 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 Francis Creecroft< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said
Francis Creecroft< no role > 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
he the said Francis Creecroft< no role > did then lately before die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said Francis Creecroft accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Shepherd< 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.

Joseph Shepherd< no role > [mark] Foreman




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