Southwark
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of
Saint Olave within
the Borough of Southwark
in the County of Surrey
on the thirty
first day of October in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the third King of Great Britain & 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 a Woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown noe here
lying dead by the oath of
William Griveson< no role >
,
George Thompson< no role >
,
William Bromleys< no role >
,
Thomas Tidmarsh< no role >
,
Charles Roberts< no role >
,
Richard Thornton< no role >
,
Samuel Watkins< no role >
,
Stacey Cloak< no role >
,
William Carter< no role >
,
George Squire< no role >
,
John Turner< no role >
,
David Reddie< no role > This name instance is in set 00.
,
Morris Jones< no role >
, and Thomas
Cheswiss, good and lawful men of the Borough
of Southwark
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 woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is unknown came to her death say upon their oath that the said woman whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown on the twenty ninth day of October in
the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River of
Thames 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 woman whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid to unknown did then and there die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said woman whose name to
the Juror's aforesaid is unknown in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by misfortune came by her death and not otherwise - In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
William Griveson< 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 abovewritten
Wm Grievson< no role >
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