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

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Image 228 of 63230th July 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Mary White Chapple in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth 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
Henry King< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Hammond< no role > , Richard Tomlinson< no role > , William James< no role > , William Swan< no role > , Thomas
Fordham
< no role > , John Hunt< no role > , John Revell< no role > , John Jenings< no role > , Thomas Lesley< no role > , George Fox< no role > , Benjamin
Rice, and William Smith< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Henry King< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Henry King< no role > on the Twenty sixth
Day of July in the Year aforesaid being on Board a Ship then Building in Meretonys
Dock at New Crane in the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid It
so happened That he the said Henry King< no role > then and there accidentally, Casually and
by Misfortune fell from the said Ship to and against the Bottom of the said Dock
By Mean whereof he the said Henry King< no role > then and there received one Mortal Fracture
[..] SkullKing Of which [..] Mortal Fracture
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Hammond< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Reft 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 Hammond< no role > [mark] Foreman




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