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

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Southwark


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Olave within
the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the fifth 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 John Yarrington< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of James Gatty< no role > William Robinson< no role > George Stillnell Samuel Watkins< no role > George
Ovington John Langhill John Kate< no role > Robert Pickup< no role > James Judd< no role > Thomas Baskin< no role > John Ward< no role > William
Barton Roger< no role > Lewis James Smith< no role > and John Davidson< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough of
Southwark aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to enquire for our said
Lord the King when how and in what manner the said John Yarringdon< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that the said John Yarrington< no role > then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell into the River of Thames and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there
suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said John Yarrington< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
John Yarrington< no role > 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
James Gally the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of him and the rest of his fellows in their
presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above
written

James Gattey< no role > [mark] Foreman




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