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

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Image 291 of 6324th February 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish of
Saint Mary Stratford Bow in the County of
Middlesex , the fourth Day of February in the twenty third 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, in View of the Body of
Eleanor Cox< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Jacob Targett< no role > Henry Parnell< no role > John Miles< no role > William Procter< no role > Joseph Atkins< no role >
Lawrence Bodkin< no role > Richard Reece< no role > William Nocke< no role > William Bailey< no role > Patrick
Ward Edward Nutley Joseph Penny< no role > feather Randal Lawrence< no role > and Joshua Robin< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chose, 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 Eleanor Cox< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Eleanor Cox< no role > on the First Day of February
in the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the
River Lee at Old Ford in the Parish of Saint Mary Stratford< no role > Bow aforesaid in
the County aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated
and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Eleanor Cox< no role > then
and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that
the said Eleanor Cox< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune Came to her Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jacob Targett< 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 > Coroner

Jacob TargettForeman




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