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

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Image 135 of 6326th March 1782


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Newington in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth Day of March 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 Kurby< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Staples< no role > , Edward Harris< no role > , John Love< no role > , Richard Givineth, John Stone< no role > , William
Buggard, Francis Pearce< no role > , William Giles< no role > , John Morgan< no role > , John Cattle< no role > , William Chapman< no role >
Robert Clebery< no role > , Thomas Adams< no role > Simon Seymour< no role > and Thomas Porter< 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 Kurby< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Kurby< no role > on the Fourth Day of
March in the Year aforesaid being riding a certain Roan Mare along a certain
Lane called The Green Lane situate in the Parish and County aforesaid It so
happened That he the said [..] by then and there accidentally casually and
by Misfortune fell from the [..] into a Slough of Mud and Water [..] in the said Lane
was in the saidsuffocated and drowned of [..]
[..] then and there [..]
[..]
John Kurby< no role > [..] and the Property [..]
Possession of the Execu [..] of the said John Kurby< no role >

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Staples< 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 Steples [mark] Foreman




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