City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1796 - 30th December 1796

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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 Dunstan in the East in the ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the second day of
July 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 a man whose name to the Jurors is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the
oath of John Gray< no role > John Jones< no role > Joseph Fennell< no role > James Lamb< no role > Samuel Webb< no role > James Blanche John
Drake William How< no role > John Crane< no role > William Harris< no role > Stephen Newman< no role > and William Hurst< 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 man whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said
man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown 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
man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath 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 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 above written

[..] Gray




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