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

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London
T Shelton
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at
the Parish of Saint Ann Blackfrirars in the Ward of Farringdon within in London aforesaid on the first day of august 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 Sarah Kilby< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Freeman< no role >
Charles Meady< no role > John Hutchtins William Simpson< no role > James Delafons< no role > John Himer< no role > William Dointon Joseph Hemphill< no role >
Thomas Blink< no role > James Harrison< no role > Ralph Wilde< no role > Thomas Hollings< no role > and Joseph Taylor< no role > 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 Sarah Kilby< no role > came to her death say upon street oath that the said Sarah Kilby< no role > on the thirty first day of July in the
year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the
River Thames and an and with the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said
suffocation and drowning she the said Sarah Kilby< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Kilby< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated
and drowned In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroneras the said Thomas Freeman< no role > the foreman of the
said Jury 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

Thos. Freeman [mark] Foreman




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