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 Matthew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the Nineteenth 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
Charles Ryan< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Warner< no role > , George Booth< no role > , Francis Greenwood< no role > , William Blessed, John Andrew< no role > , John
Malfusion, Daniel Dupey< no role > , Alexander Mackenzie< no role > , John Matthews< no role > , Anthony Vattin< no role >
Joseph Labord< no role > , James Kenshaw< no role > , James Ely< no role > , James Bennett< no role > , James Hill< no role > , John
Howard and James Middlemore< 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 Charles Ryan< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Charles Ryan< no role > on the Sixteenth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid having gone into a certain Gravel Pit of Water situate
in Prichards Field< no role > in the Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bath himself It
so happened That accidentally, casually and by misfortune he the said Charles Ryan< no role >
was in the Waters of the said Gravel Pit then and there suffocated and drowned of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Charles Ryan< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Charles
Ryan in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by the misfortune
came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Warner< 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

W Warner [mark] Foreman




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