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

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MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the sign of
the [..] inthe Parish of Saint John Hampstead in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty second Day of June 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
Thomas Goldsmith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Evans< no role > William Lelham< no role > , George Bell< no role > , Thomas Geeves< no role > , James Cook< no role > , Josiah
Kempton
< no role > , George Paxon< no role > , William Hopkins< no role > , Daniel Keene< no role > , James Grist< no role > , Richard
Hatch, William Witt< no role > , Samuel Muddock< no role > and William Mardon< 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 Thomas Goldsmith< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Goldsmith< no role > on the Twentieth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being at Work as a Carpenter at the House of
Samuel Morris< no role > situate in the Parish of Hendon It so happened That he the
said Thomas Goldsmith< no role > then and there accidentally casually casually and by Misfortune
fell from a Scaffold into a Place called The Well By Means whereof he the said
Thomas Goldsmith< no role > then and there received divers Mortal Bruises Of which said
mortal Bruises he the said Thomas Goldsmith< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Goldsmith< no role > in
manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune
came to his Death

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




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