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

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MIDDLESEX
(To Wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our [..] at [..]
[..] in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth 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
George Donnison< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Street< no role > , John Pownceby, Anthony Carlatte< no role > , John Slater< no role > , John Teodale, James Thatcher< no role > , Charles Melling< no role >
Christian Awe< no role > , Thomas Laycock< no role > , Samuel Shepheard< no role > , Samuel Buckley< no role > , Miles Dudley< no role > , Abraham Shearman< no role >
John Hartnell< no role > and Jeffery Phillips< 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 George Donnison< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said George Donnison< no role > on the Fourth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid having gone into The River Thames at Shadwell Dock
in the Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bath himself It so happened That
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune he the said George Donnison< no role > was in the Waters
of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said George Donnison< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said George Donnison< no role > in manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Street< 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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