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

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Image 527 of 60724th October 1797


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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Allhallows Barking in the ward of Tower in London
aforesaid on the twenty fourth day of October 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
< 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 Thomas Stone< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of John Gray< no role > , John Jones< no role > , Joseph Fennell< no role > , Alexander Nowell< no role > , Thomas Fowler< no role > , Joseph
Morris,
< no role > John Crane< no role > , William How< no role > , Edward Roberts< no role > , Henry Hadden< no role > , Charles Lattimer< no role > ,
and Christopher Graham< 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 Thomas Stone< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that the said Thomas Stone< no role > on the twenty second day of October
in the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River of
Thames, there situate 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 Thomas Stone< no role > did
then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said Thomas Stone< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Gray< 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

Jno. Gray< no role > [mark]




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