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

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Image 299 of 63218th February 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Leonard Bromley in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighteenth Day of February in the twenty third 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
a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Oliver< no role > Thomas Wheeler< no role > Robert Sorrell< no role > William Bailey< no role > William Cardinal< no role >
Joseph Penny< no role > Feather Henry Barnes< no role > John Harding< no role > John Roberts< no role > Charles Balderson< no role >
Plympton Whaltom< no role > Joseph Webb< no role > John Masters< no role > William Lewis< no role > James Cole< no role >
and Phillip [..]
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 Woman unknown came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Woman Unknown on the Sixteenth
Day of February in the Year aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell into a certain but of Water Called the new Cut near the three Windmills in
the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid And was in the Water of the
said [..] Cut then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation
and Drowning She the said Woman Unknown then and there Died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said
Woman Unknown 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 John Oliver< 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

John Oliver< no role > [mark] Foreman




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