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

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Image 522 of 63214th 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 fourteenth Day of February 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 Hill< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Clark< no role > , Thomas Osborne< no role > , Samuel Knightly< no role > , Richard Davies< no role > , William Watson< no role > George Blake< no role >
John Pitblady< no role > Richard Ashton< no role > George Cunningham< no role > Charles Cook< no role > Thomas Russell< no role > John
Smith and Anthony Another< 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 Hill< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Hill< no role > on this fourteenth Day of February
in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from a certain Wharf
called Howley's Wharf in the Parish and County aforesaid into a certain Dock there called
The Hermitage Dock And was in the Water and Mud of the said Dock then and there suffocated
and smothered, of which said Suffocation and Smothering he the said John Hill< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon there Oath aforesaid do say That the said John Hill< 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 Thomas Clark< no role >
the Foreman of the 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 Clark< no role > [mark] Foreman




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