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

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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 George
the Martyr within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eleventh day of
June 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 Charon Duke de Sorrentine
now here lying dead by the Oath of Thomas Willett< no role > John Fox< no role > Thomas Williamson< no role > William
Sorrell Benjamin Willmott Thomas Reyner< no role > Joshua Gibbons< no role > David Immery< no role > Charles Clark< no role >
William Reynolds< no role > Charles Clements< no role > Thomas Bruin< no role > John Huggett< no role > Hugh Payne Robert
Woodrow John Smith< no role > Alexander Dowie Luke Wood< no role > William Nicholess< no role > and Matthias Pearce< no role >
good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County 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 Charon Duke de Sorrentine came to [..]
upon their Oath that the said Charon Duke de Sorrentine on the tenth day of [..]
ninth year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Borough and County [..]
Pistol of the Value of six pence Loaded with gunpowder and a leaden bullet [..]
said Charon Duke de Sorrentine in his right hand then and there had and [..]
against the head of himself [..] said Charon Duke De Sorrentine did then and [..]
discharge giving to himself then and there with the leaden bullet aforesaid [..]
discharge from the said [..] force of the gunpowder aforesaid one [..]
the head of him the said Charles Duke< no role > De Sorrentine of which said Mortal in [..]
Charon Duke de Sorrentine did [..] and there die. and so the Jurors aforesaid [..]
oath aforesaid do say that the [..] Charon Duke de Sorrentine not being of the [..]
memory and understanding [..] ustic and distracted did shoot and kill [..]
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Willett< no role > the for [..]
said Jurors on behalf of him [..] and the rest of his fellows in their presence [..]
Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten

Thos. Willett< no role > [mark]




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