City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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Image 121 of 69714th March 1785


City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex . to wit.


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of March in the twenty fifth
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
Prickard
< no role > , Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Thomas James< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Burgess< no role > , Thomas Gyde< no role > , Henry Drake< no role >
Abraham Belcher< no role > , William Keattey< no role > , Thomas Munday< no role >
Matthew Temple< no role > Timothy Edwards< no role > , James Brown< no role >
Matthew Sweet< no role > , Aaron Loton< no role > and William Eaden< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Thomas James< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said Thomas James< no role >
on the thirteenth day of March in the year aforesaid
being Skaiting upon the Canal in St. James's Park
in the Parish and County aforesaid, It so happened
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the
See then and there broke, and the said Thomas James< no role >
fell into the said Canal, and in the Water therein was
then and there suffocated and Drowned, of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas James< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas James< no role >
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and y Misfortune came to his death, and not
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said John Burgess< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
and Seals the Day year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Burgess< no role > [mark] Foreman




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