City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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appearance of Life in the decedthat the deced was take
on there to the Quay with all convenient speedandwhere
Dept. left him.

Sworn the 5th day of
May 1792 before me}

John Warford< no role >

Henry David< no role > of No. 1 Grodmans Fields Hooper Square
in the County of Middlesex one of the Merchants Watchmen
in Brewers Quay aforesaid maketh Oath that he was
watching on Brewers Quay aforesaid on Thursday Night
lastthat the Deced whom Dept. has known some time
part was also watching on the same Quaythat he was
very much intoxicated with Liquor that about twenty
Minutes part two Dept. saw the deced go towards the
edge of the Quay next the Riverthat just as he came near
the edge of the Quaythat just as he got an the Edge
of the Quay
being very much intoxicated he Humbled
against something and fell into the Water between the
Quay [..] and a Craft that was laying alongside the
Quaythat [..] Dept. gave the alarm
of the deced being overboardthat some persons went
to endeavour to save the deced that [..] in about twenty
Minutes after the deced was got on shore on the Quay
that he appeared to be quite deadthat in about a quarter
of an hour after the deced was taken away from the
Quay quite dead.

Sworn the 5th day of
May 1792 before me}

Henry David< no role >




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