London

T Shelton Corr [mark]
exmd.

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre in
the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty seventh day of December 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 Defender 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 Amos Smart< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Prince Edward King< no role > John Phitheon John Strighs James Arding, Peter James< no role > Husbands, Thomas Tilson< no role > , Philip
Evans< no role > John Taylor< no role > Thomas Palse John Jenkins< no role > William Sell< no role > Kenny Cutt< no role > Thomas Blake< no role > James Lee< no role > Luke Watson< no role > and William King< 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 how
and in what manner the said Amos Smart< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that one Lawrence Cook< no role > late of London Coachman on the twenty
second day of December in the year aforesaid being driving a certain Coach drawn by four horses along and through a certain public read leading from
Highgate in the County of Middlesex to the City of London and the said Amos Smart< no role > then and three being in a certain Cart drawn by one Horse
in the said public wad it so happened that the said four horses drawing the said Coach did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune
violently force the said Coach to and against the said Cart By means whereof the said Cart was then and there returned and thrown down and the
said Amos Smart< no role > so being in the reced Cart as aforesaid was then and there by the means aforesaid violently and forcibly cast and thrown from and
out of the said Cart into the said public read and to and against the Ground there and the said Coach and the said four Horses drawing the said
Coach did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and pass over the Body of him the said Amos Smart< no role > By means whereof
he the said Amos Smart< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal wounds and bruises in and upon the head face back sides Arms legs and thighs
of been the said Amos Smart< no role > Of which said [..] wounds and bruises he the said Amos Smart< no role > four the said twenty second day of December in the
[..] until the twenty fourth day [..] month of December in the same Year as the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live On [..] said twenty fourth day of December in they car aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid the said Amos Smart< no role > of the said [..] ound and bruises did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the
said Amos Smart< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed And that the said four Horses and the
said Coach were moving to the death of the said [..] Smart and are of the value of twenty shillings and that the said four Horses are the property
and in the possession of Thomas Wilson< no role > of London [..] keeper and that the said Coach is the property and in the possession of John Besant and certain
other persons whose names to the Jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Prince Edward King
the foreman of the said Jurors as behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellow in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and scale
the day year and place first above written

P E King [mark] Foreman