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

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Image 211 of 6322nd July 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 Second Day of July 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 Holland< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Hodgson< no role > , Joseph White< no role > , John Kippax< no role > , James Burgess< no role > , Edward Mc Farling< no role >
James French< no role > , Jacob Hack< no role > , John Walker< no role > , Patrick Callaghan< no role > , James Hardy< no role > , John
Printup, Andrew Burt< no role > and Thomas Harford< 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 Holland< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Holland< no role > on the sd. second Day
of July in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into a well
of Water Situate in the Garden of him the said Thomas Holland< no role > situatein Virginia Street in
the Parishandof Saint George in the County aforesaid and was in the Watersthereofof the said Well then and there suffocated
and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas Holland< no role > then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid [..] there Oath a [..] Do say That the
said Thomas Holland< no role > [..] means aforesaid [..] casually
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Hodgson< 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

Jno. Hodgson [mark] Foreman




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