City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 180 of 85818th April 1799


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Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is today
at the parish of Saint Mildred in the Poultry in the ward of cheap in London aforesaid on the eighteenth
day of April in the thirty ninth 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
a man whose name to the Jurors up unknown now here lying dead by the oath
of Edward Jute, Charles Weeden< no role > , John Heath< no role > , John Cramont< no role > , Benjamin Stary< no role > , Thomas Hood< no role >
Richard Jackson< no role > , William Gear Salt, John Willatts< no role > , Robert Watts< no role > , Joseph Weatherley, Joseph
Peart, Thomas Swift< no role > , and George Tavington< 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 man whose name is unknown came
to his death say upon there oath that the said man whose name is unknown or
the seventeenth day of April in the year aforesaid being going up a certain ladder
placed against a scaffold erected for carrying on of a certain building called Grocers
hall these situate It so happened that the said man whose name is unknown did
then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune fall from the said Ladder down
unto and against the ground there by means whereof the said man whose name
is unknown did then and there accidentally casually and leg misfortune receive
divers mortal bruises in and upon divers parts of his body of which said mortal bruises
he the said man whose name is unknown did then and there instantly didand so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that said man whose name
to them is unknown 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 Edward Jute the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf
of himself and the rest of his follows in their presence have to his Inquisition set
their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Edward Jute< no role > [mark]




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