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

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Image 128 of 71212th August 1782


[..] for our Sovereign Lord the King at [..]
[..] in the County of Middlesex , the [..]
[..] Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, [..] Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one [..] Our said Lord
[..] for the said County, on view of the body of Jesoh Marriott< no role > and I am [..] well
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of William Cowdery James
Creasy, Archibald Hunter< no role > William Grayson< no role > Samuel Kelly< no role > William Bishop< no role >
Ralph Maddox< no role > Thomas Jackson< no role > Thomas Dawnton John Boyd< no role > William
Bettsworth Zachariah During< no role > Robert Snow< no role > Richard Garner< no role > Edward Francis< no role >
Samuel Hinton< no role > John Bradley< no role > Samuel Tanner< no role > and John Haddon< 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 Jereh Marrott< no role >
and James Powell< no role > came to [..] their Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Jereh Marrott< no role >
and James Powell< no role > on the Twenty Eighth Day of August in the Year aforesaid
being at Work on a Scaffold in Bedford Square in the Parish and County aforesaid
It so happened That the said Scaffold then and there accidentally, casually and
by Misfortune gave Way and fell to the Ground By means whereof They the
said Jereh Marrott< no role > and James Powell< no role > then and there received divers mortal
Bruises in and upon the Bodies, Legs and Thight of them the said Jereh Marrott< no role >
and James Powell< no role > Of which said mortal Bruises they the said Jereh Marrott and
James Powell< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said Jereh Marrott< no role > and James Powell< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune came to their Deaths

In Witness whereof, as well [..] the said Coroner, as the said James Cowderoy 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.

Wm. Cowderoy [mark] Foreman




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