Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
[..] in the County of
Middlesex [..] of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, 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
William Hall< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Nicholas Gordelier< no role > James Greenwood< no role > , John Greenwood< no role > Peter Renvoire< no role > , James Ely John Grenon Lewis
Donnege, James Pigex, Daniel Boitell< no role > , George Jeffries< no role > , James Manoury< no role > , John Simons< no role > John Devall< no role > John Andrien
Thomas Harrod< no role > Thomas Bear< no role > , James Shakeshaft< no role > , James Sanders< no role > , George Munn< no role > . Benjamin Pratt< no role > , Parm an Harding
and Lewis Pigea< no role >
good and lawful 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 William Hall< no role > an Infant came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Hall< no role > on the Eighteenth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Six Years on thereabouts
And having gone into a Gravel Pit of Water Situate in Mr Prichards, Field in the
Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That accidentally casually and by
Misfortune he the said William Hall< no role > was in the Waters of the said Pit then and
there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the
said William Hall< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said William Hall< 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 Nicholas Gordelier< 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 and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Nicholas Gordelier< no role > [mark] Foreman




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