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

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Image 67 of 63210th September 1781


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of September 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
Ralph Bambridge< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Green< no role > Edward Bayley< no role > , Benjamin Sayer< no role > , Jasper Bacon< no role > , William Meyors John Hagen< no role > , Edward Robinson< no role >
Philip Wall< no role > , Edmund Bryant< no role > , James Weatherhead, James Bonnass< no role > Edward Linthwaite< no role > and Edward Taylor< 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 Ralph Bambridge< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Ralph Bambridge< no role > on the Fourth
Day of September in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from a Barge which was then lying on the River Thames at Shadwell Dock
Tier in the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid into the said River and was in
the waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said Ralph Bambridge< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Ralph Bambridge 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 John Green< 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

Jno. Green [mark] Foreman




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