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

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Image 220 of 63222nd July 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at
the parish of Saint Mary Stoke Newington in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Alexandar Oades< no role > , William Dixon< no role > , Henry Thrupp< no role > , Charles Kneeler< no role > , Nathan
Jefferson
< no role > , William Hutchinson< no role > , Frank Stapp< no role > , John Kittle< no role > , William Perren< no role > ,
Thomas Ludgate< no role > , Edward Spencer< no role > , Henry Vernon< no role > , William Campoion< no role > and Thomas Burgin< 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown on the Sixteenth Day
of July in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell into a Pond
of Water called The Well Pond near The Golden Lyon at Newington Green in the Parish
and County aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned
Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Man unknown then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Man
unknown in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Alexander Oades< 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

Alex Oades [mark] Foreman




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