City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 223 of 63116th April 1795


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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 Michael Queenhithe in the Ward of in thein London aforesaid
on the sixteenth day of April 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 Thomas
Flumridge now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Wilson< no role > Robert Day< no role > Thomas Freeman< no role >
William Loveday< no role > William Catchpole< no role > Henry Tiffin< no role > James Barrett< no role > and Thomas
Stevens
< no role > John Phillips< no role > George Lock< no role > Nathaniel Gash< no role > George Powell< no role > and Richard Tapper< no role >
[..] 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 Thomas Plumirdge< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. came to his death say upon their oath that
the said Thomas Plumridge< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. on the fourteenth day of April in the year aforesaid body
in and on board a certain vessell then lying and being on the River of Thames It so
happened that the said Thomas Plumridge< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from and out of the said Vessell into the said 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 Thomas Plumridge< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas
Plumridge in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Thomas Wilson< 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 above written

Thos. Wilson [mark] Foreman




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