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

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Image 82 of 63223rd October 1781


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty third Day of October 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
John Harrison< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Samuel Blore< no role > Thomas Young< no role > Benjamin Kebbs< no role > William Wetherland< no role > James Marsh< no role > George
Dixon Peter Eac [..] our William Gardner< no role > Andrew Galland< no role > Robert Pearce< no role > George Payne< no role > and James
Cannon.
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 John Harrison< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Harrison< no role > on the Twentieth
Day of October in the Year aforesaid [..] bound drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at Parsons's [..] and County aforesaid That the said
[..] John Harrison< no role > had [..] apearing about him [..]
[..] in what [..] Evidence [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Blore< 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

Saml Blore [mark] Foreman< no role >




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