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

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Image 100 of 63228th December 1781


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 twenty eighth Day of December in the twenty Second 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 Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Taylour< no role > Thomas Clarke< no role > Joseph White< no role > Jacob Hack< no role > Edward Owen< no role > John B [..]
George Whitack< no role > Henry Moore< no role > James Powell< no role > Thomas Connie Thomas Dimmack David
Smith Jonas Moxon Joseph Meers & John Meers< 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 Boy unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Boy unknown on the twenty Seventh day
of December in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at
Union Stairs in the Parish and [..] said But how or by what Means the said Boy
unknown became drowned and [..] Residence doth appear to the said [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Taylour
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

William Taylour [mark] Foreman




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