City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 401 of 94922nd June 1790


London
and
Southwark }


T: Shelton
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at
the Parish of Saint Andrew hubbard in the Ward of Billingsgate in London aforesaid on the twenty second day of
June 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 Depender 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 John Jackson< no role > now here lying dead
by the Oath ofEtc William George< no role > Wetterrel & Robert Jones< no role > Joseph Scatt< no role > Edward West< no role > William Blance Benjamin
Johnson Edward Motley Edmond Bell Senior Thomas Higgins< no role > , Barnard Steirs< no role > Oliver Skinner< no role > William Tomlinson< no role >
Joseph Whereon Edward kemp< no role > and William Tomlinson< no role > Junior 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 where how and
in what manner the said John Jackson< no role > came to his Death say upon their Oath that the said John Jackson< no role >
on the twenty first day of June in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaidaforesaidin
London aforesaid being employed as a Dricklayer upon a certain Scaffold then and there erected at and before there
Dwelling house oneMountfier there situate is so happaned is so [..] penced that the said John Jackson< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune did fall from and off the said Scaffold into the open Street and [..] and upon
theopeen streetStone Pavernent there by means whereof he the said John Jackson< no role > did then and there receive divers
mortal wounds and Bruises in and upon the Head face Back sides anns legs and thighs of him the said John
Jackson of which said Marsal wounds and Bruises he the said John Jackson< no role > did then and there instantly
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Jackson< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said William George Wetheritt< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest
of his Fellows on their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

Willm. Geoe Wetheritt [mark] Forman




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