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

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Image 242 of 63122nd April 1795


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Thos Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of All hallows Barking in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid
on the twenty second 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 Robert Becks< no role > now
here lying dead by the Oath of John Gray< no role > James Hasted< no role > Charles Burnett< no role > John Drake< no role >
Joseph Morrice< no role > Mark Cook< no role > Robert Adams< no role > James Blanch< no role > John Groser Charles Styring< no role >
Joseph Fennell< no role > Daniel Jewson< no role > James Lamb< no role > and John Crane< no role > good and lawful men of
the City of London aforesaid who being now here duty chosen sworn and charged to inquire
for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Robert Becks< no role > came to
his death say upon their oath that the said Robert Behoo on the twenty first day of April
in the year aforesaid being employed in the fifth story in a certain ware house belonging to
the untiled company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies It so happened that the
said Robert Behoo accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said warehouse
down to and upon the ground and stone payement there by means whereof the said Robert Behoo
did then and there receive divers mortal bruises and fractures in and upon the head legs and
thigh of him the said Robert Behoo of which said Mortal Cruises and fractures he the
said Robert Behoo did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Robert Behoo in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and
by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said John Gray< 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.

John Gray< no role > Foreman




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