City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 358 of 9491st June 1790


London
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Southwark
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T. Shelton
Carr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say,
at the of Parish of SaintSepulchreBartholomew the Great in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the first day of June 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 Defended on the Faith Etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role >
Gentleman Coroner of our said Soul the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view on the body
of Sarah Curtis< no role > now here lying Dead by the oath of Edward Wright< no role > Whitcome William< no role > Davis Erasmus< no role >
Jones Phillip Evans< no role > Edmund Smith< no role > Joseph Dancer< no role > John Fellowes< no role > John Berry< no role > Arthur Francling Richard
Thompson Benjamin< no role > George and Thomas Whitaker< 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 Sarah Curtis< no role > came to her Death say upon their Oath that one William Smith< no role > on the
twenty fourth day of May in the Year aforesaid bying driving a certain Coach drawn by two Horses along
and through and upon a certain public road and Kings Common high way called Kingsland Road
within in the Parish hope hewit Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex and the said Sarah Curtis< no role >
bring then and there going and passing along the said Public road and Kings Common highway
and near unto the said Coach it so happened that one of the horses of the said Coach then and there
accidentally casually and by misfortune did violently force the said Sarah-Curtis< no role > to and upon the
Ground there and near unto the said Coach And the said Sarah Curtis< no role > so then and there lying upon the
Ground aforesaid one of the Wheels of the said Coach did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon
and pass over the Body of her the said Sarah Curtis< no role > By means where [..] she the said Sarah Curtis< no role > did then
and there receive divers mortal wounds and Bruises in and upon the arms legs and thighs of her the
said Sarah Curtis< no role > of which said Mortal wounds and cruises she the said Sarah Curtis< no role > from the
twenty fourth day of May in the year aforesaid until the twenty eighth day of the same Month of
May in the Year aforesaid as well at the said Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County
aforesaid as also at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great in the Ward aforesaid did Curguish
and languishing did live On which said twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
last aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid she the said Sarah Curtis< no role > did die And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Curtis< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed And that the said Wheel was
of the said Coach was moving to the Death of the said Sarah Curtis< no role > and is of the value of five shillings
and the property and in the possession of oneBolton of the Sara [..] ns Head Sun in Aldgate in the City
of London aforesaid In Witness whereof as well the said Conner as the said Edward Wright< no role >
Whitcomb the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellowes in their presence have to this
Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above
written

E. Wright [mark] Whitcomb< no role >




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