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

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Image 200 of 63214th June 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Hackney in the County of
Middlesex , the fourteenth Day of June 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
Thomas Edwin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Wakelin< no role > Philip Wakelin< no role > William Thompson< no role > Thomas Dodds< no role > Richard Trigg< no role > Christopher Hind< no role >
James Steward< no role > Benjamin Godfry< no role > John Payne< no role > Thomas Hill< no role > Richard Suewin William
Nutting and< no role > Joseph Cowling< 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 Thomas Edwin< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Edwin< no role > on the ninth Day of June
in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from a certain Wharf
called new wharf in the Parish and County aforesaid into The River Lee And was in the
waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Thomas Edwin< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Edwin< no role > 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 John Wakelin< 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 Wakelin< no role > [mark] Foreman




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