City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 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 Andrew by the Wardrobe in the Ward of Castle baynard in London aforesaid
on the fifteenth day of December in the thirty sixth 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 Archer< no role > now
here lying dead by the oath of Wilford Tiffin< no role > Richard Dacker< no role > John Mitchell< no role > James Storey< no role >
John Rook< no role > Christopher Spence< no role > Robert Pashley Jonathan Monkhouse George Dalston Thomas
Hobbs John< no role > Thomas Sherp< no role > Luke Hale< no role > and Thomas Boston< 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 John Archer< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said John Archer< 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 Archer< no role > did then and there die. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Wilford Tiffin< 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.

Wilford Tiffin< no role > [mark]




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