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

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Image 483 of 63222nd November 1785


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Mary Whitechapel in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty second Day of November 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
Thomas Boyce< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176. Joseph Flumston< no role > William Swan< no role > John Griffin< no role > Charles Meyer Richard Lanceman< no role >
John Rogers< no role > Samuel Monk< no role > William Pitcher James Fletcher< no role > Henry Stevens< no role > and John Duffin< 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 Thomas Boyce< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Boyce< no role > on the Nineteenth Day of
November in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell from a window
at the West End of the lower Passage in the London Hospital in the Parish and County aforesaid
to and upon certain Stone Steps there By Means whereof he the said Thomas Boyce< no role > then and
there received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head, Body, Hips, Thighs and Arms of
him the said Thomas Boyce< no role > of which said mortal Bruises he the said Thomas Boyce< no role > then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas
Boyce 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 Benjamin Royce< no role > This name instance is in set 3176.
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

Benn Rice [mark] Foreman




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