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

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Image 113 of 63222nd January 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty Second Day of January 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
John Weedle< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Keckwick Charles Argill< no role > Thomas Parrock< no role > Robert Grigg< no role > Edward Addison< no role > Samuel Carter< no role >
William Archer< no role > Archibald Richey< no role > John Henfree< no role > Henry Bradley< no role > Robert Cockbourn< no role > and
John Clark< 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 John Weedle< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Weedle< no role > on the Twenty fifth Day
of December in the Year aforesaid being in a Boat called a Fishing Boat then lying on the
River Thames at Cinnamon Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened
That he the said John Weedle< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell
from the said Boat [..] and was in the Waters thereof then and [..]
there suffocated an [..] and Drowning he [..]
[..] the [..] on their [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Peter Kekwick< 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

Peter Kekwick [mark] Foreman




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