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

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Image 187 of 63228th May 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty eighth Day of May in the twenty second 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
Andrew Armour< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Rice< no role > , John Teasdale< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > , Charles Woodward< no role > , Christian Awes< no role > ,
Jacob Abrahams< no role > , William Dennis< no role > , Thomas Balard< no role > , William Benson< no role >
John Nightingale< no role > , James Nash< no role > and Alexander Low< 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 Andrew Armour came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Andrew Armour on the Twenty seventh
Day of May in the Year aforesaid being a Mariner on Board a Ship called The Susannah
then lying in the River Thames in Pelican Tier in the Parish and County aforesaid And being on the Larboard
yard Arm of the said Ship endeavouring to Clear the Main Brace of Ship called The
Nelly then also lying there It so happened That he the said Andrew Armour then and there
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell between the Quarters of the said Two Ships
By Means whereof he the said Andrew Armour then and there received divers Mortal Bruises
in and upon the Head and Body of him the said Andrew Armour of which said Mortal Bruises
he the said Andrew Armour then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
[..]
accidentally Casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death
[..]
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Rice< 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
William Rice< no role > [mark] Foreman




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