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

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eleventh day of December in the thirtieth 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 or 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 Hannah Wilson< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Law< no role > John Mitchell< no role > Robert
Shyres Robert Capp< no role > William Barber< no role > John Savoy< no role > Decimas Haywood< no role > James Gardiner< no role > Jeremiah Holliday< no role > Nathaniel Harris< no role >
Thomas Asquish< no role > William Cornfoot< no role > and John John Lee< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid
who being now here duly chosen sworn charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner
the said Hannah Wilson< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that certain persons whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
are yet unknown on the ninth day of December in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid within the Borough
aforesaid in the County aforesaid being driving a certain Carriage drawn by three Horses called a Dray along and through
a certain open and public place and common highway there called Saint Thomas's Street and the said Hannah Wilson< no role > being
then and there going and passing along and through the said open and public place and common highway and along and
upon the foot pavement there of the said Street it so happened that the off what of the said DrayCavelaccidentally casually and
by misfortune did forcibly and violently strike against the said Hannah Wilson< no role > and said then and there force the said Hannah
Wilson to and upon the Ground there and that she the said Hannah Wilson< no role > so then and there forced to and upon the Ground as
aforesaid the said off wheel of the said DrayCaveldid then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and pass
over the Body of her the said Hannah Wilson< no role > whereby she the said Hannah Wilson< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal
wounds and bruises in and upon her said Body Of which said mortal wounds and bruises she the said Hannah Wilson< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Hannah Wilson< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed And that the said Off wheel of the said DrayCavelwas moving to the death
of the said Hannah Wilson< no role > and is of the value of one Shilling and is the Property and in the Possession of Felic Calvert< no role > and others of upper Thames
Street London Brewers In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Law< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors
on 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 first above written

Thomas Law< no role > [mark] Foreman




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