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

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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Dwelling House of Thomas Hollings< no role > in the
Liberty of the Rolls in the County of Middlesex , the Eighteenth Day of April in the 25th. 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 > Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Mortimer Elson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Parker< no role >
Thomas Bratton< no role > , William Hunter< no role > , Thomas Bignall< no role > , Robert Mason< no role > Peter Crowes< no role > , Thomas
Bishopp Robert Burton< no role > , John Williams< no role > , William Hughes< no role > , William Child< no role > and Ellis Davis< 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 William Mortimer
Elson came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William
Mortimer Elson on the fifteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and County aforesaid
Departed this Life by Exclusive Drinking And not from any hurt Injury or Violence done or
Committed by any Person or Persons Whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said, James Parker< 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.

Jas. Parker [mark] Foreman




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