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

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MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth Day of March in the Twenty second Year of the Regin 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 Kingston< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Lavers< no role > , Andrew Norling< no role > , David Rumens< no role > , William Elliott< no role > , William Taylor< no role >
Robert George< no role > , John Wallace< no role > John Karmock< no role > , William Edridge< no role > , William Richards< no role >
James Wright< no role > , Samuel Knightly< no role > William Heading< no role > John Horne< no role > Adam Mills< no role >
and Jacob Cook< 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 Kingston< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That Some Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid
as yet unknown not having the Fear of God before his, her or their Eyes but being moved
and seduced by their Instigation of the Devil on the Seventeenth Day of February in the
Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in
and upon the said John Kingston< no role > in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then
and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did make
an [..] And the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown with
[..] which said
[..]
[..] One [..] wound of the Breadth of [..]
[..] John [..] into the Stomach of him the said John Kingston< no role > [..] said mortal Wound
he the said John Kingston< no role > from the said seventeenth Day of February in the Year aforesaid to the
Twenty Eighth Day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County
aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did Live On which said Twenty Eighth Day of February
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Mortal Wound
aforesaid he the said John Kingston< no role > did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say That the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown him
the said John Kingston< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his
her on their Malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King
his Crown and Dignity
IN WITNESS whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Lavers< 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

John Lavers< no role > [mark] Foreman




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