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

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Image 303 of 65918th June 1794


Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at [..] the parish of Saint Olaves within
the Borough of Southwark in the country of Surrey on the eighteenth 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 and so forth before Thomas
Shelton Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view
of the body of a man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath
of Marmaduke Shaw< no role > John Powell< no role > Thomas Bastin< no role > John Langhill< no role > Roger Lewis< no role > James Judd David
Reddie James Smith< no role > John Ross< no role > John Buckley< no role > John Complin< no role > Edward Furnen< no role > and Robert Lewis< no role >
good and lawful men of the Borough and County 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 Man
unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said man unknown then lately before
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River of Thomas and in and with the waters of the
said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which suffocation and drawing the said
Man unknown did then and there do And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Man unknown 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 Marmaduke Shaw< 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 abovewritten.

Marmaduke Shaw [mark] Foreman




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