City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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City & Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex ,}
to wit,

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Richard Sutton< no role > the Sign of the Royal Exchange Adams Mews Charles Street Mount Street
parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the twenty second day of May 1797
in the thirty Seventh 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 Anthony Gell< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City
and Liberty, on View of the Body of a Man unknown then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 Man unknown came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Man unknown on the twentieth day of May
in the Year aforesaid at the parish and in the Liberty aforesaid Is
Wit on the Shore of the River Thames on Mill Bank was then
and there [..] found drowned. that the said Man unknown
had no Marks of Violence appearing on his body but how and
by what Means the said Man unknown came to his Evidence no
Evidence thereof doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Thos Yates< no role >
Foreman
Jno. Wilkinson< no role >
John Piddington< no role >
James Brittain< no role >
Philip Sutton< no role >

John Ashton< no role >
Francis Barnard< no role >
Richard Hughs< no role >
Thos Hartley< no role >
Jno. Thompson< no role >
Richd Pearce< no role >

Philip Woodcrofts< no role >




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