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

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MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION Indented Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at [..]
Saint And [..] the County of
Middlesex the [..] Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, 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
Peter Woodhouse< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Brown< no role > , Henry Primet< no role > Thomas Craven< no role > Thomas Purnell< no role > , James Ranken< no role > John Henry< no role >
Habber combe, John Horseley< no role > , James Brathwaite< no role > , Mark Jones< no role > William Archer< no role > Peter Smith< no role >
Thomas Parrock< no role > Benjamin Wood< no role > and David Williams< 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 Peter Woodhouse< no role > an Infant came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Peter Woodhouse< no role > On the Eleventh Day
of June in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the age of [..] Eight Years or thereabouts
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into The River Thomas at Candle Stairs
in the Parish and County aforesaid And was in the Waters [..] of the said River then and there
suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Peter
Woodhouse then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Peter Wood< no role > house 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 Robert Brown< 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
Robert Brown< no role > [mark] Foreman




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