City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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London


T. Shelton
Corr. [mark]


examd.


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London, that is to say at the Parish of
Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe in the Ward of Castle baynard in London aforesaid on the sixth day of November in the twenty ninth 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 Etc
before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of
James Worthington< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Richard Packer< no role > , John Bye< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > , William Norris< no role > , William Priostley< no role >
Herman Laga< no role > [..] William Godsall, Gabriel Smith< no role > , John Wood< no role > , Matthew Russell< no role > , William Barnett< no role > , James Godfrey< no role > and George Oram good
and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the
King when how and in what manner the said James Worthington< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said James Worthington< no role >
on the twenty eighth day of October in the twenty ninth year aforesaid being in and on board a certain Boat on the River Thames in the
Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid is so happened that the said James Worthington accidentally casually and by misfortune fell
from and out of the said Boat into the said River Thames and in and with the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and
drowned Of which said suffocation and drowning he the said James Worthington< no role > did then and their die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said James Worthington< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and By
misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Packer< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and
place first above written.

Richd Parker< no role > [mark] Foreman




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