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

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MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Mile End old Town in the parish of Saint Dunstans Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth Day of August 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 Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Henry Goodricke< no role > and Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Amery< no role > , Francis Hill< no role > , John Walker< no role > , Edward Hillwell< no role > , Joseph Dickenson< no role > , John
Crathern, William Crowder< no role > , John Pickett< no role > , Joseph Glanfield< no role > , Richard Castle< no role > , Francis
Galloway
< no role > , Joseph Forster< no role > , John Robey< no role > , Peter Clark< no role > , James Harrison< no role > , Philamon
Chalk, John Taylor< no role > , and Joshua Smallie< 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 what Means, the
said Henry Goodricke< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Henry Goodricke< no role > on the Third Day of
August in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two Years and an half
or thereabouts accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into a Ditch of Water
and MudSituatenear The Three Cranes in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid And was in the said Water and Mud then and there suffocated and drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning [..] the said Henry Goodricke< no role > then and there
[..]

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

Jno Amory [mark] Foreman




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