City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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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 Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon within
in London aforesaid on the sixth day of February in the thirty seventh year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 woman whose name to the Jurors
aforesaid is unknown now here lying dead by the oath of John Langdon< no role > Charles
Moody William Pritchard< no role > William Heawood James Pullen< no role > John Leavens< no role > James Spittle< no role >
William Boyton< no role > James Jenkins< no role > John Mosher< no role > Ralph Wild< no role > Samuel Brown< no role >
Thomas Shallard< no role > . Thomas Lardnar< no role > William Gorman< no role > & Charles Gill< 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 Woman whose name to ye Jurors aforesaid is unknown came to her death say
upon their oath that the said Woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown
then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River
of Thames there situate 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 Woman whose name to the
Jurors aforesaid is unknown did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is
unknown in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune came to her death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said John Langdon< 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 Langdon< no role > [mark] Foreman




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