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 Bennett Pauls Wharf in the Ward of Castle Baynard in London aforesaid
on the seventeenth day of February in the thirty seventh 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 Dunn< no role > now
here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Thornton< no role > Stephen Wolfe< no role > John Chadsey James< no role >
Tovey James Adam< no role > Thomas Cole< no role > John Rooke< no role > Benjamin Moore< no role > William Tennett James
Finley John Fowler< no role > and Tilbury Williams< 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 Dunn< no role > came to his
death say upon their oath that the said John Dunn< no role > on the fifteenth day of February
in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid 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 Dunn< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Dunn< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Thornton< 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.

Thomas Thornton< no role > [mark] Foreman




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