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

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Image 462 of 63214th October 1785


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Hamlet of Mile End New Town in the
Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County Middlesex , the fourteenth Day of October in the twenty fifth 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, Etc. 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 Newman Renham< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Thomas Goodles< no role > , Benjamin Goode< no role >
Joseph Kingston< no role > , Henry Eyre< no role > , Thomas Burtenwood< no role > , William Water< no role > , Robert Goodman< no role > , John
Lenard, Peter Hobson< no role > , Richard Wilis< no role > , William Bernardine< no role > , Samuel Coleman< no role > , Thomas Bedley< no role >
John Prince< no role > , John Dinsdale< no role > , George Brown< no role > , John Dent< no role > , and Philip Eholey< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law is required And [..] who

Prisoners within the said Prison, which said lawful Men and Prisonerbeing then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the the said Newman Renham
came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Newman
Renham on the Fourteenth Day of October in the Year aforesaid being in a Wooden bat
whereas was contained a Quantity of Grounds of Beer with Intent to clean out the said
Grounds It so happened That he the said Newman Benham was by the Fumes
ariving from the said Grounds then and there choaked suffocated and stifled, Of
which said cheaking Suffocation and Shifting he the said Newman Renham then and there
died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Newman Renham in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by Misfortune came to his Death

In Witness wh ere of,as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Goode< no role > This name instance is in set 2403. 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 abovementioned.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Thos. Goode [mark] Foreman




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