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

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Image 414 of 6323rd August 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary Islington in the County of
Middlesex , the Third Day of August 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
Samuel Grammar< no role > Samuel Mathews< no role > , James Tyrrell< no role > , Richard Porter< no role > , Isaac
Bowles
< no role > , Robert Oldershaw< no role > , Samuel Fly< no role > , Comet Loyer< no role > , William Dixie< no role > , John Cart< no role > ,
Benjamin Castledon< no role > John Pear< no role > , Thomas Palmer< no role > , Zachariah Cox< no role > and William Charlton< 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 Woman unknown came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Woman unknown [..] accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell into a Pond of Water called The Wheel Pond situate in
near White Conduit House in the Parish and County aforesaid And was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
she the said Woman unknown then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid Do say That the said woman unknown 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 Samuel Grammer< 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
Samuel Grammer [mark] Foreman




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