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

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Image 510 of 6326th February 1786


MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the sixth Day of January 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
John Eate Richard Ashton< no role > Thomas Chorley< no role > Samuel Knightley< no role > Edward Hutchinson< no role > John Williams< no role >
John Petchedy< no role > John Carse John Nusell< no role > George Ashton< no role > David Whitehead< no role > and James Anderson< 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 the Fifth Day of January
in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at Glasgow Wharf
in the Parish and County aforesaid But 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 John Eate
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

John Eate [mark] Foreman




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