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

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Image 182 of 63223rd May 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty third Day of May 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
James Le Plasterer an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Samuel Buckley< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > , Anthony Carlatte< no role > , George Hagleton< no role > , John Dolder< no role > ,
Peter Wallis< no role > , George Kitching< no role > , Henry John< no role > Sawyer, James Ratley< no role > , Thomas Osbourn< no role > ,
Alexander Adams< no role > , and Anthony Cleghorn< 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 James Le Plasterer came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said James Le Plasterer in the Eighteenth
Day of May in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the age of Eighteen Months or thereabouts
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into a Necessary belonging to the House of
Dunlop situate in the Parish and County aforesaid And was in the Fifth and Sixthereoncontained in the said Necessary
then and there suffocated and smothered Of which said Suffocation and Smothering He the said
James Le Plasterer then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said James Le Plasterer in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death
[..]
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Buckley< 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
Saml Buckley< no role > [mark] Foreman




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