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

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Image 531 of 85827th June 1799


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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Michael Queenhithe in the Ward of Queenhithe in London aforesaid
on the twenty seventh 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 Thomas Emperor now here lying dead by the oath of John Phillips< no role > John Davis< no role > John Elsee< no role >
Thomas Hathway< no role > Henry Palmer< no role > Edward Winspear< no role > Henry Broom< no role > Richard Tapper< no role >
Joseph Parker< no role > Jonathan Downs< no role > Richard Reily William Brown< no role > and Thomas Reynolds< 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
Thomas Emperor came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Emperor on the
twenty second day of June in the year aforesaid 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 Thomas Emperor did then and
there die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Phillips< 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 above written.

John Phillips [mark] Foreman< no role >




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