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

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Image 307 of 65918th June 1794


Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint John
within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eighteenth day of June in the thirty
fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 a Man unknown now here lying dead by the oath of John Wab Edward Bursley< no role > John Falconer< no role >
William Jones< no role > Christopher Britton< no role > James Turner< no role > Charles Staines< no role > John Robbins< no role > Robert Freves Thomas
Davis Richard Sanderson< no role > William Delby Thomas Waite< no role > Joseph Vallance< no role > good and lawful men of
the Borough of Southwark 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 their lately before fell into [..] the River of Thomas and in with the waters
of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said drowning the
said Man unknown die then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said Man unknown accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Webb< 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

Christopher [mark] Foreman< no role >




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