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

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Image 407 of 6591st August 1794


Southwark


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.


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 first day of August 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 Mary
Wilding now here lying dead by the oath of Richard Lewis< no role > Samuel Bratt< no role > John Grinsted James
Mott Peter Lacey Alexander Crosier< no role > William Shevill< no role > John Munday< no role > Charles Lyall< no role > James Scott< no role >
John Bishop< no role > and John Bowen< 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 Mary Wilding< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary
Wilding then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River of Thames
and in and with the waters of the River was then and there suffocated and drowned of
which said suffocation and drowning the said Mary Wilding< no role > did then and there die
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Lewis< 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.

Richard Lewis< no role > [mark]




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