City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at London (that is to say)
at the parish of Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe in the Ward of [..] Castlebaynard
in London aforesaid on the nineteenth day of January in the thirty seventh year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before Thomas
Shelton Gentelman< no role > Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the body of Richard Humber< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
John Buswank< no role > Wilford Tiffin< no role > John Bye< no role > John Thomas< no role > Sharp William Norris< no role > William
Priestley John< no role > Belstrand Dennis< no role > Richard Smedley< no role > Matthew Russell< no role > Thomas Hobbs< no role > Timothy
Thomas John Mitchell< no role > and William Fleming< 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 Richard Humber< no role > came
to his death say upon their oath that the said Richard Humber< no role > on the seventeenth day
of January in the year aforesaid being in a certain barge then lying on the River
of Thames there situate It so happened that the said Richard Humber< no role > did then and
there accidentally casually and by misfortune fall from and out of the said barge
into the said River and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there
suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said Richard
Humber did then and there dieIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Buswank< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. 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 abovewritten.

John Baswank< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. [mark]




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