City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

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Image 403 of 101925th June 1789


London
and

Southwark }
T Shelton
Corr.


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint John within
the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty fifth day of June in the twenty ninth year of reign of
due Sovereign Lord George the third of the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith [..]
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 a certain male Child now here lying dead by the oath of Robert Broadwater< no role > James Hote< no role > Richard Williams< no role >
Samuel Wife John Randall< no role > John Mills< no role > Edward Collin< no role > William Hawkins< no role > Richard Gynson< no role > Benjamin Purcey< no role > , Paul Marchall
William Weels< no role > James Brown< no role > William Samuel< no role > and Peter Payne< no role > good and lawful Men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid
in the said County of Surrey 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 Child came by his death say upon their oath that a certain Woman whose name to the
Jurors aforesaid is unknown being pregnant and wish Child of the said Child is so happened that the said Child while it was
ensient and in the Womb of the said Woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown by the act of Providence and by no
violent means or method whatsoever did die And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that afterwards, to
wet on the twenty fourth day of June in the year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid in the County
aforesaid the said Woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown from the Body of her the said Woman whose name to the
Jurors aforesaid is unknown did being forth the said Child dead and the said Child was then and there still born In
Witness whereof aswell the said Coroner as the said Robert Broadwater< 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

Robt. Broadwater< no role > [mark] Foreman




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