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

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Image 368 of 65919th July 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 Allhallows the less in the Ward of Dowgate in London aforesaid on the nineteenth day of
July 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 > Gentleman
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body
of a Woman unknown now here lying dead by the oath of Christopher Teasdale< no role > Aaron Baker< no role > William
Willshire
< no role > Edward James< no role > Petter Cathie James Hallett Anthony Hales< no role > Richard Hunt< no role > Thomas Savill< no role >
Thomas Davies< no role > William Whaits< no role > and John Rain 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 Woman unknown came to her death say upon their oath that the said
woman unknown then lately before accidentally and by misfortune fell into a certain quantity of
Mud and soil then and there lying and adjoining to the River of Thames by means whereof the said
woman unknown was then and there checked suffocated and smothered in and with the mud and soil
aforesaid of which said choaking suffocation and smothering the said woman unknown did
then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said woman
unknown [..] in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Christopher Teasdale< 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.

Christr Teasdale [mark] Foreman




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