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

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Image 102 of 63229th November 1781


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney. in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty Ninth Day of November 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 Jenkins< no role > John Hart< no role > William Brown< no role > , Richard Edwards< no role > John Portery Obadiah< no role >
Woodcock John Wallis< no role > Thomas Grover< no role > John Thurgood< no role > John archer< no role > George Frost & John
Hall
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 November in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the
Riv [..] es near the First Mill at Limehouse Hole in [..] let a foresaid in
[..] aforesaid But how or by what [..] ned one
[..] th appear to the said Jurors [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Jenkins< 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

Wm Jenkins [mark] Foreman




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