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

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Image 238 of 63227th August 1782


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty seventh 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 County, on View of the Body of
John Monro< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Comerford< no role > , Jonah Collins< no role > , Thomas Morris< no role > , John Walmbeck< no role > ,
Benjamin Hobbs< no role > , Samuel Blore< no role > , Samuel Knightley< no role > , Johns Smiths< no role > , John
Snakinburk, John Richardson< no role > , Thomas Crutchley< no role > , and Richard Davies< 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 John Monro< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Monro< no role > on the Twenty first Day
of August in the Year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Stake Brussells then
lying on The River Thames at Yarmouth Chair It so happened That he the said
John Monro< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said
Ship into The River aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated
and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Monro< no role > then and
there died And so the [..] aforesaid for the Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Comerford< 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

Thos Comerford [mark] Foreman




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