City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 164 of 8582nd April 1799


London


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the parish of Saint Martin Organs in the Ward of Bridge in London
aforesaid on the second day of April in the thirty ninth 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 man whose name to the Jurors [..]
is unknown now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Woollard< no role > , John How< no role >
William Ball< no role > ,Charles Whiteman< no role > , James Rose< no role > , Thomas Browne< no role > , Richard
Taylor, Charles Lambert< no role > , James Cole< no role > , John Mason< no role > , William Nowbald< no role > , Philips Green< no role > ,
and Timothy Higgins< 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 man whose name is unknown came to his death
say upon their oath that the said man whose name 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 Man whose name is unknown did then and thew die
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Woollard< 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 above written.

Thos Woollard [mark] Foreman




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