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

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Image 573 of 6591st November 1794


Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at Parish of Saint John within
the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the first day of November 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 Evan Pritchard< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Dennis Cottewell< no role > John Nicholson< no role > George Hawkins< no role > William Sarnell James
Brown James Stewart< no role > John King< no role > Paul Macpheal charles Hedder John Bundy< no role > James Burgess< no role > George
Purkiss and Thomas Deighton 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 Evan Pritchard< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Evan
Pitchard on the twenty seventh day of October in the year aforesaid being in and on board of a certain
Vessell then lying and being on the River of Thames It so happened that the said Evan Pritchard< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the vessell into the said River of Thames
and in and with the waters of the said River was then and thre suffocated and drowned of which
said suffocation and drowning the said Evan Prichard< no role > did then and there die And so that Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath afoesaid do say drowned. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Dennis Cotterell< 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 hand and seals the day year and
place first abovewritten.

[..] Dennis Cotterell< no role > [mark] Foreman




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