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

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Image 353 of 63231st May 1785


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An inquisition Indented Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of Enfield in the County of Middlesex the Thirty first 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 a woman unknown then and there lying dead upon
the Oath of John Taylor< no role > , William May< no role > , John Wright< no role > , Richard Smith< no role > , Christopher Nunn< no role >
John Slade< no role > , Charles Hollingsworth< no role > , Thomas Viton< no role > , Thomas Tokelove< no role > , Joseph Webb< no role > , John
King, George Gates< no role > , Theophilus Tibbs< no role > , James Whitacre< no role > , Luke Cawthorne< no role > , John Joyce< no role >
Edward Stradling< no role > and Richard Elland< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said County duly
chosen And who being then and there dulyalsosworn and Charged to Inquire for our
said Lord the King when, how and by what Means the said Woman unknown came
to her Death Do upon their Oath Say That the said Woman unknown on the Thirtieth
Day of May in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the New River
near a Place called Blue Church in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said
Woman unknown had not any Marks of Violence appearing about her And how or by
what means she became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said
Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Taylor< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition Set their Hands
and Seals the Day and Year first above written

Thos Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Taylor< no role > [mark] Foreman




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