Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Lale [..]
in the County of Middlesex , the eighth Day of June in the 22nd. Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third , by the Grace, of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Parker< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Thomas Frimley< no role > , John
Needham
< no role > , William Webster< no role > William Clement< no role > , John Long< no role > , Thomas Rolfe< no role > ,
John Essam< no role > , Jacob Killingley< no role > , George Males< no role > , Richard Wheeler< no role > , John
Gamble
< no role > John Frotter and James Wickens< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said William Parker< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said William Parker< no role >
on the Twenth Day of June in the Year aforesaid being in an open Boat
on the River Thames in the Parish and County aforesaid [..] It so happened
That the said Boat then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
overset and suck into The River aforesaid By Means whereof he the said
William Parker< no role > was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated
and Drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said William
Parker then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said William Parker< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Frimley< 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 and Yeat first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

The Mark of
Thomas [mark] Frimley [mark] Foreman




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