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

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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London that is to say at the
parish of Allhallows Barking in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the tenth 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 Sarah Jenkinson< no role > now here lying dead by
the oath of John Gray< no role > , Stephen Newman< no role > , Daniel Jewson< no role > , John Jones< no role > , James Lamb< no role > , William
Brown, Edward Roberts< no role > , Anthony Woodland< no role > , Joseph Fennell< no role > , Henry Hadden< no role > Joseph Derett Joshua
Jermy, Charles Burnett< no role > , Thomas Crow< no role > , and James Robinson< 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 Sarah Jenkinson< no role > came to her
death say upon their oath that the said Sarah Jenkinson< no role > on the eighth day of January
in the year 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 Sarah Jenkinson< no role > did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Jenkinson< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to
her 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 abovewritten

John Gray< no role > [mark]




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