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

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Image 159 of 63216th April 1782


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 Sixteenth Day of April 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 Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Elliott< no role > , John Marshall< no role > , Thomas Cord< no role > , James Wilson< no role > , William Taylor< no role > ,
Benjamin Robinson< no role > , George Creighton< no role > , James Grange< no role > , Cornelius Hervington< no role >
John Brady< no role > , William Russell< no role > , John Cook< no role > , Charles Glyms< no role > , Robert George< no role > ,
and Joseph 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 Woman unknown came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Woman unknown on the Thirteenth day
of April in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at
Gun Dock in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Woman unknown had not any Marks
of violence appearing about her And how or by what means she became drowned and suffocated
no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Elliott< 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 Elliott [mark] Foreman




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