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

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Image 495 of 6329th December 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the ninth 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
A man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Kekwick< no role > , Charles Humphrys< no role > , Thomas Wheatly< no role > , Thomas Pink< no role > , James Webb< no role > , John Brunker< no role > , John Carr< no role >
William Archee< no role > , Thomas Pawser< no role > Samuel Carter< no role > William Barge John Henry< no role > Habbercome, William Wilson< no role >
Henry Thorn< no role > and Henry Harvey< 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said man unknown on the sixth Day of
December in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames at
Limehouse Bridge in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown 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 Coroner as the said Peter Kekwick< 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

Peter Kekwick [mark] Foreman




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