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

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Image 472 of 63226th October 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To Wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty sixth Day of October in the twenty sixth 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
John Hollawell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Doren, John Archer< no role > John Sheter, Robert Grigg< no role > Paul Johnson< no role > John Pard Peter Root< no role > Miles Harlow< no role >
Wiliam Newton< no role > John Ayles< no role > , John Bryman< no role > Thomas Ecle< no role > and Thomas Wheeler< 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 John Hollawell< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Hollawell< no role > on the Twenty fourth Day
of October in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames near
Shadwell Dock Tie in the Parish and County aforesaid, That the said John Hollowell< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. had not
any Marks of Violence appearing about him And how or by what means he became drowned and
suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroners as the said Thomas Doren< 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
Thos. Doren [mark] Foreman




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