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

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Image 117 of 71229th June 1782


Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Fulham
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth Day of June in the 22d 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 Edward Woolford< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of William Plumbridge< no role >
Thomas Neal< no role > , Samuel Knight< no role > , Christopher Wayman< no role > , Samuel Flooks< no role >
Nathan Houghton< no role > , Deliverance Smith< no role > , John White< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Edward
Lacey
< no role > , Joseph Lewis< no role > and John Waster< 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 said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Edward Woolford< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said Edward Woolford< no role >
[..] accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into a Crick of Water at Sandy And
in the Parish and County aforesaid [..]
drowned and suffocated No Evidence do the appear to the said Jurors
and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Edward Woolford< no role > then and
there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Edward Woolford< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well [..] the said Coroner, as the said Edward Woolford< 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 Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

William Plumidge [mark] Foreman




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