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

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Image 533 of 71220th June 1786


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Dwelling House of John Southall< no role > known by
the Sign of the Ship Essex Stairs in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the liberty of the Savoy in the County of Middlesex on Tuesday
the Twentieth Day of Junein the Twenty Sixth 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 and so forth before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King, for the said County on View of the Body of Thomas Cardell< no role >
then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of William Robinson< no role > , John Chapington< no role > William Caxey< no role > Charles Pollock< no role >
Robert Nelson< no role > George Gilburt< no role > , Mathew Hewett, Benjamin Carter< no role > , George Nicholson< no role > John Rothery< no role > John Gill< no role > , Samuel
Orton, Thomas Pinkney< no role > George Cockington< no role > Joshua Joyce< no role > Robert Frotter< no role > John Fletcher< no role > George Careless< no role >
William Davie< no role > , and Edward Hodges< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said County duly chosen and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to
inquire for our said Lord the King, when how and by what means the said Thomas Cardell< no role >
came toDeath do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Cardell< no role > on the Nineteenth day of June in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid being in the River Thames Bathing himself it so
happened that accidentally Casually and by misfortune he the said Thomas Cardell< no role > was Seized with a
fit and in the Waters of the said River then and there was Suffocated and Drowned of Which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said Thomas Cardell< no role > then and there instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Cordall< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by misfortune Came to his Death and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Robinson< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows in their presence have
to this Inquisition Set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and place first above Written.

Wm. Robinson< no role >




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