City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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10th January 1780 - 30th December 1780

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Image 87 of 47010th February 1780


Says that the Deced appeared to have
been a long while Drowned being then
in a very Butred State, and the Skin
Pealing off his Flash.

The Mark [mark] of
Stephen Pool< no role > .

Sworn the Day Year & Place
abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }

Verdict,


That a Man unknown was found
Drowned & Suffocated in the Sarpentine
River in Hyde Park in the Parish of
St. Margaret Westmr . on the 9th. day of
February 1780, and that there was no
Evidence to make it appear how he
became Drowned

Richd. Dobinson< no role >




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