City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1798 - 28th December 1798

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Southwark


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the
parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on
the Fifth day of January in the thirty eighth 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 Millin< no role > now here lying dead by
the oath of Peter Jones< no role > , Thomas Crooks< no role > Luke Cannen< no role > , John Harris< no role > William Jagg< no role > ,
Thomas Nicholson< no role > Daniel Blundell< no role > William Cooper< no role > Josiah Maynard Christopher
Crooks, Samuel Hales< no role > , Isaac Smith< no role > James Archer< no role > , and Robert Clay< 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 Millin< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that
the said William Millin< no role > an infant child on the first day of January in the year aforesaid
being in a certain room in the dwelling house of William Millin< no role > the elder situate
in the parish of Saint George the Martyr within the Borough and County aforesaid
It so happened that the Garments and Cloaths which the said William Millin< no role >
then had on his person accidentally casually and by misfortune caught fire by
means whereof the said William Millin< no role > was then and there mortally burned of which
said mortal burning he the said William Millin< no role > from the said first day of Samuel
in the year aforesaid until the second day of the same month of January in the same year
as well at the said parish of Saint George the Martyr as also as the abovementioned
parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough and County aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live and on the same day and year last aforesaid did languish
last aforesaid within the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid
the said William Millin< no role > of the said mortal burning did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Millin in manner said
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
Peter Jones< 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.

Peter Jones< no role > [mark] Foreman




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