City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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31st December 1793 - 24th December 1794

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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 Andrew Holborn in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the fourteenth
day of June in the thirty fourth 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 and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentlemen
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of
John Reiley< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Samuel Gurrier< no role > Francis Dukes< no role > George Dighton< no role >
James Paris< no role > George Bently< no role > George Whitlow< no role > Joseph Wheeler< no role > George Acton< no role > George Wallace< no role > Joseph Russell< no role >
John Cooper< no role > Thomas Botton< no role > William Price< no role > Paul Harvey< no role > and William Hobbs< 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 John Reilly came to his death say upon their
that the said John Reiley on the eleventh day of June in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid
[..] in London aforesaid did take and drink divers large quantities of a certain spirituous liquor
called Geneva and by means thereof then and there became greatly intoxicated and that the said
John Reiley< no role > by such intoxication then and there became sick and diseased in his body of which said
sickness and disease the said John Reiley< no role > from the said eleventh day of June in the year aforesaid
until the thirteenth day of June in the same year at the parish and Ward aforesaid did languish [..]
and languishing did live on which said thirteenth day of time in the thirty fourth year aforesaid at the
parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said John Reiley of the said [..] and disease did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Reiley in manner and by the means aforesaid
came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel
Guerrier the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his follows in their presence
have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Samuel Guerrier< no role > [mark] Foreman




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