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

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Image 363 of 6074th August 1797


Southwark


Thos Shelton< no role >
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the
parish of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey
on the fourth day of August 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 William Hanwell< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of James Haughton< no role > Daniel Harris< no role > William
Harris William Rose< no role > William Chapman< no role > John Grinstead< no role > Richard Kingshot< no role >
John Hogg< no role > John Smith< no role > Thomas Hardwick< no role > Peter Bell< no role > and Timothy Newland< no role >
good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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 William Hanwell< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said William Hanwell< no role > on the third day of
August in the year aforesaid being in and on board of a certain vessel lying on
the River Thames there situate It so happened that the said William Hanwell< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said Vessell into
the said River 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
William Hanwell< no role > did then and there dieAnd so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the said William Hanwell< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his
death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said James Haughton< 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.

James Haughton< no role > [mark] Foreman

A bad belong to the Nancy of ChesterMaster Stu [..] deceased by falling [..]
hard in the River Thames




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