City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

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Image 122 of 101914th February 1789


London
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Southwark }


T Shelton
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say, at the Parish
of Saint Martin Ludgate in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the fourteenth day of February in the twenty ninth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Depender of the Faith
Etc before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of
Jacob Greenaway< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Barnes< no role > , John Barker< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , Griffin Thomas< no role > , John Robinson< no role > , John Brightwell< no role >
John Brown< no role > , James Sewell< no role > , John Crabb< no role > , William Herrall< no role > , William Stild< no role > , William & panfield, Thomas Sidmen and James Rogers< no role > good and lawful
men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when know and in
what manner the said Jacob Greenaway< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Jacob Greenaway< no role > on the eleventh day of February
in the year aforesaid being greatly intoxicated by the excessive drinking of divers large quantities of strong and spirituous liquors it so
That tuned that the said Jacob Greenway< no role > on the day and year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid by such
excessive drinking and intoxication was checked and suffocated of which said cheaking and suffocation he said Jacob Greenway< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Jacob Greenaway< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid came by his death and not otherwise. In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Barnes< no role > the
Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of the Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands
and seals the day year and place first above written

Thos: Barney [mark] Foreman< no role >




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