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

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Image 181 of 7123rd March 1783


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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint James
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex , the Third Day of March in the 23d 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 Coroner 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 Job Butler< no role > , William
Weaver , Richard Hancock< no role > , William Waylen< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , Abraham Oliver< no role > , Edward
Francis, John Simcoe, Richard Church< no role > , Richard Ashley< no role > , Alexander Brown< no role > and
John Clark< 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 Second Day of March in the Year aforesaid was found drowned
and suffocated in The New River in the Parish and County aforesaid But
how or by what Means she became drowned and suffocated No Evidence doth
appear to the said Jurors

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Job Butler< 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.

Job Butler [mark] Foreman




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