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

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Image 494 of 6328th December 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 eighth Day of December 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
James Small< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Samuel Shevington< no role > Isaac Blackburn< no role > John Virtue< no role > Robert Byford< no role > John Hall< no role > Joseph Taylor< no role > Adam Scott< no role >
Thomas Spence< no role > Thomas Bore John Powneeby< no role > James Powneeby< no role > Samuel Pitstone< no role > Edward Evans< no role > and James
Rubidg
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 James Small< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said James Small< no role > on the sixth Day of December
in the Year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Mentor then lying in the River Thames
at Bell Wharf in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened that he the said James Small< no role >
then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Ship into The River
aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said James Small< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said James Small< no role > 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
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

Samuel Shevington [mark] Foreman




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