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

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Image 84 of 6322nd November 1781


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary Stratford Bow in the County of
Middlesex , the Second Day of November in the Twenty Secondfirst 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William May< no role > , Joseph Atkins< no role > Charles Bolderstone< no role > John Williams< no role > John Williams< no role > Henry
Thatcher William Richardson< no role > , Henry Perry< no role > , John Frith< no role > , Thomas Shereman Joshua
Robins and William Edwards< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown on the Thirtieth Day of
October in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Lee in the
Parish and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown had not any Marks of
Violence appearing about him [..] been or by what Means he became drowned and
suffocated no Evidence doth [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William May< 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.

E Umfreville [mark] Coroner

Wm May [mark] Foreman




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