Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 52 of 71216th October 1781


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint James
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of October in the 21st. 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroner s of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a Woman Unknown
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Phillips Daniel< no role >
Hands John Harding< no role > Abraham Dunting< no role > William Johnson< no role > Joseph
Mallby [..] Henry Mare William Drake< no role > Hugh Anderson< no role >
Thomas Harwood< no role > Andrew Blakey< no role > Joseph Hands< no role > Charles Bailey< no role >
Benjamin Fidler< no role > Thomas Burch< no role > and Daniel Daniels< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Woman unknown
came to h er Death, do upon their oath say, That the said woman unknown
on the Sixteenth Day of October in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune fell into The New River in the Parish and County aforesaid
and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of
which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Woman unknown then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Woman unknown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to her Death

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said John Phillips< 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 and Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Phillips [mark] Foreman< no role >




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