City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1791 - 31st December 1791

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City & Liberty of
Westmr in the
County of Midsex }


Informations taken this Fourth day
of July 1791 at the Parish of St. James
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County
of Midsex upon an Inquisition touching
the death of William Edward Glahome< no role >
lying dead in the said parish Liberty
and County

Thomas Easton< no role > of Bankside Southwark
Waterman on his Oath saith that on Wednesday
Evening last the Twenty ninth day of June
last between the hours of seven and Eight, this
Dept. was in his Boat couring down from
Whitehall to Hungerford in the River Thames
says that he saw the Deced in the River
naked, and that the Deced walked in too far
out of his Depth and the Tide which was
then Ebbing, drove the Deced down says
that the Deced came up and dept endeavour
to catch hold of the Deced's Hand but missed
it and Deced such again and Dept. did
not see the Deced afterwards alive and
Dept. was there Drowned accidentally
Says that there was no person in the Thames
with the Deced when he was Drowered and
that it happened merely accidentally

Thomas Easton< no role >

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




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