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

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Image 536 of 63229th March 1786


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty ninth Day of March 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
Francis Greenwood< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Bowcer< no role > , David Brown< no role > , David Hinman< no role > , William Bayford, James
Williamson, Francis Sellers< no role > , John Fox< no role > , Archibald Ramage< no role > , William Catholick< no role > ,
Thomas Dickenson< no role > , George Westgate< no role > , Robert Moncar< no role > and George Worrall< 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 Francis Greenwood< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the saidJamesFrances Greenwood on the Twenty
third Day of March in the year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Chapman then
lying in The River Thames at Blackwall Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish
and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said Francis Greenwood< no role > then and there
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from one of the Ports of 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 Francis Greenwood< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Francis Greenwood< 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 William Bowcer< 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
Wm. Bowcer [mark] Foreman




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