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

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Image 234 of 63221st August 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Mile End New Town in the parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty first 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 Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
William Green< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Crime< no role > , John Duncomb< no role > , Peter Eade< no role > , Samuel Burman, George Brown< no role > , Daniel
Harmer, Henry Bunston< no role > , George Filkins< no role > , William Wilson< no role > , Edward Foulsom< no role > , William
Waterlow
< no role > , John Dunsdale< no role > , John Tann< no role > , James Martin< no role > , George Farmer< no role > and Thomas
Saunders
< 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 William Green< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Green< no role > on the Twentieth Day
of August in the Year aforesaid being at work at a Scaffold which was erected at
The Distill House of Samuel Davy< no role > Liptrap in the Parish of Saint Mary White Chapell
in the County aforesaid And being endeavouring to fix up a Pewter Worm there It so happened
That the said Scaffold then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell
down And divers Pieces of the [..] which composed the said Scaffold then and there
[..] William Green< no role > [..] whereof [..] then and
[..]

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

John Prince< no role > [mark] Foreman




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