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

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Image 583 of 65922nd November 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 Saint Mary at hill in the Ward of Billingsgate in London aforesaid on the twenty
second day of November in the thirty fifth 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 Philip Webb< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
John Bailey< no role > William Lenlave< no role > William Shepherd< no role > William Byford< no role > John Coleman< no role > John
Pierless Thomas Phipps< no role > Thomas Goodwin< no role > Edward Webster< no role > John Freer< no role > William Coates< no role > and John
Bates 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 Philip Webb< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Philip Webb< no role >
on the twentieth day of November in the year aforesaid being on board a certain Vessell called the
Adventure of Milton then lying and being on the River of Thames It so happened that the said
Philip Webb< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and off the said Vessell upon
against and into certain mud and soil then and there lying and adjoining to the said River of
Thames by means whereof the said Philip Webb< no role > did then and there receive one mortal bruise
and contusion in and upon the left side of him the said Philip Webb< no role > of which said mortal
bruise and contusion he the said Philip Webb< no role > from the said twentieth day of November in the
year aforesaid until the twenty first day of the same month of November in the same year
at the Parish and Ward last aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did
live on which said twenty first day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward
last aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Philip Webb< no role > of the said mortal bruise and contusion
did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Philip Webb< no role >
in manner and by 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 John Bailey< 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 and year first above written.

John Bailey< no role > [mark]




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