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

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Image 244 of 63216th September 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of September 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
Daniel Wise< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Lucas< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. Thomas Coe< no role > William Elliott< no role > Cuthbert Hayes< no role > Joseph Meers John
Meers Thomas Eames< no role > John Gray< no role > George Creighton< no role > William Taylor< no role > James French< no role >
Richard Moore< no role > Andrew Norling< no role > and William Lincoln< 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 Daniel Wise< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Daniel Wise< no role > on the Thirteenth Day of
September in the year aforesaid being a Mariner on Board a Ship called The Chance
then lying in The River Thames at Bell DockWharfin the Parish and County
aforesaid And being endeavouring to top up the Fore Yard of the said Ship It so
happened That the Boom of the said Ship then and there accidentally casually and
by Misfortune fell upon the Head of him the said Daniel Wise< no role > By Means whereof he
[..] said Daniel [..] there received [..] Fracture in and upon the
[..] Wise of [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Lucas< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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

Wm Lucas [mark] Foreman




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