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

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Image 148 of 71228th October 1782


[..] indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The parish [..] James
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Eighth Day of Oct [..] Year of the
[..] 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 Coroner s of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a Woman unknown
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of William Weaver< no role > Cartwright
Allbone, John Simcoe, Richard Handcock< no role > , John Ayres< no role > , William Clapton, Edward
Morgan
< no role > , Christopher Newcomb< no role > , William Stephenson< no role > , William Banton< no role >
and Abraham Chrystal< 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 Woman unknown
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman unknown
on the Twenty sixth Day of October in the year aforesaid was found drowned
and suffocated in The New River near Sadlers, Wells Bridge in the Parish
and County aforesaid That the said Woman unknown had not any marks of
violence appearing about her And how or by what means she became drowned
and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said William Weaver< 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.

Willm Weaver [mark] Foreman




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