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

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Image 347 of 63211th May 1785


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Eleventh Day of May in the Twenty fifth 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
Robert Robson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Smith< no role > , Thomas Wright< no role > , John Handley< no role > , John Gibbs< no role > , Joseph Campion< no role > , Peter
Scott, Robert Friar, William Thorp< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > , Jacob Newton< no role > , Thomas Brind< no role >
and John Alexander< 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 Robert Robson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Robson< no role > on the Eighth Day
of May in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
at Lime house Hole in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid, That
the said Robert Robson< no role > had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him and
how or by what Means The became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to
the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Smith< 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 Smith< no role > [mark] Foreman




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