Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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AN [..]
[..] in the Parish of [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the [..] Day of June in the Twenty first 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, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
a Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Cole< no role > , John Haynes< no role > , John Hagan< no role > William Johnston< no role > James Shohane John Barron< no role > , John Humphreys< no role >
Darby, John Porter< no role > Anthony Haydon< no role > John Burton< no role > , Thomas Harrison< no role > and Joseph Croker< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Man Unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown on the Fourth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River
Thames at Limehouse Hole in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid But how or by what Means he became Drowned and suffocated no Evidence
doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Cole< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner




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