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

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MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Second Day of [..] ber in the Twenty First 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
Cuthbert Johnson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Alexander Wallace< no role > , Martin Mordaunt< no role > Joseph Moores< no role > John Moores< no role > Griffith Boardman< no role > John Clear< no role >
Joseph Hare< no role > Robert Pilgram< no role > Jonathan Chalker< no role > William Coiker William Fitchel< no role > Cuthbert Hays< no role >
and John Mitchell< 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 Cuthbert Johnson< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say That, The said Cuthbert Johnson< no role > on the Thirtieth
Day of September in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The
River Thames at Limehouse Hole in the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the
County aforesaid, That the said Cuthbert Johnson< no role > had not any Marks of Violence
appearing about him And how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated
no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Alexander Wallace< 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 Years first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Alexander Wallace [mark] Foreman




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