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

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Image 418 of 63213th August 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Thirteenth 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
Thomas Cutmore< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Vince< no role > , Richard Castle< no role > , Edward Davis< no role > , Solomon Peckover< no role > , Samuel Swansbury< no role > This name instance is in set 4147.
John Mc Quire< no role > , Jonathan Greenwood< no role > , John Pickett< no role > , James Steward< no role > , John Sams< no role > , Henry
Monk, Samuel Salter Bowler< no role > , Thomas Butcher< no role > , Michael Williams< no role > and Thomas Reeves< 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 Cutmore< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Cutmore< no role > on the Twelfth Day of August
in the Year aforesaid having lain himself down to Sleep on a Brick Kiln then Burning at Bow
Common in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That
he the said Thomas Cutmore< no role > was by the Smoak and Sulphurious Smell arising therefrom
then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune choaked, suffocated and stifled, of
which said Choaking, Suffocation and Stifling he the said Thomas Cutmore then and there
died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas
Cutmore 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 William Vince< 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
Willm Vince [mark] Foreman




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