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

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Image 66 of 63221st August 1781


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
[..] in the County of
Middlesex the Thirteenth Day of August in the Twenty [..] 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 Edward Umfreville< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Eleanor Cotter< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Mc. Call< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Conrad Cline, John Trevalen< no role > , William Mey< no role > , Stephen Ledger< no role >
William Plaskett< no role > , John King< no role > , Francis Betts< no role > , William Wilcox< no role > , Timothy Sullivan< no role >
James Strallan< no role > and Daniel Mc. Carty< 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 Eleanor Cotter< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Eleanor Cotter< no role > on the Twenty sixth Day
of August in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thame
at New Crane Gates in the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid
But how or by what Means she became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth
appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Mc. Call< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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.

E Umfreville [mark] Coroner
William Mc.Call Foreman




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