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 sovereign Lord the King, at the parish of
Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex the Twenty fifth Day of [..] in the Twenty first [..] 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
Sarah Corderoy< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
George Dean< no role > , James Arnold< no role > , Edward Trower< no role > , Richard Ford< no role > Samuel Fincher< no role > Thomas Bown< no role > Henry Somallman
Walter Keede Danile Cox. Thomas Tame< no role > James Lecount< no role > Alexander Gammock< no role > , James Creckwell< no role >
Thomas Yorke< no role > and Joseph Pettock< 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 Sarah Corderoy< no role > [..] came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Sarah Corderoy< no role > on the Twenty second
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Nine Years or
thereabouts and being at Play in a Stair Case Window up Two Pair of Stairs in the
Dwelling House of John Corderoy< no role > situate in Long Alley in the Parish and County
aforesaid It so happened That she the said Sarah Corderoy< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Window to and against the Stones in
the Yard belonging to the said House By Means whereof she the said Sarah Corderoy< no role >
then and there received One Mortal Fracture in and upon the Skull of her the said
Sarah Corderoy< no role > , Of which said Mortal Fracture she the said Sarah Corderoy< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That
the said Sarah Corderoy< no role > 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 George Dean< 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
Geo Dean [mark] Foreman




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