Southwark

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 twelfth day of August
in the thirty first year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France< no role > and Ireland King Defender of the Faith in a soforth Before Thomas Sutton< 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 Henry Hiles< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of John Owery Martin Stoll William Read< no role > John
Felson James Gardiner< no role > John Savoy< no role > William Jagg John Lee< no role > William Comport< no role > Joseph Wallis< no role >
Nathaniel Harris< no role > James Stephens< no role > and Lewis Halton< no role > good and lawfulmen of the Parish
aforesaid who being now here duly Chewn sworn and charged to Inquire for our said Lord the King
[..] and in what manner the said Henry Hiles< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath
the [..] one John Hamborough< no role > on the tenth day of August in the year aforesaid being
Carefully driving a certain chain drawn by one Horse along and through a certain Public
h [..] at Newington in the said County of Surrey another said Henry Hiles then
being in the said Road those happened that one of the shafts of the said chaise accidentally
causing and by Misfortune struck against the said Henry Hiles< no role > or aforesaid him to the Ground
there and then or Wheel of the said Chaise did then and there casually and by Misfortune
go upon and pass over the pleace of turn the said Henry Hiles< no role > by means whereof he the
said Henry Hiles< no role > did then and there receive divers Mortal Wounds Fractures and Contersions
in and upon his said Read of Such said mortal Wounds Fractures and Continuous he the said
Henry Hiles< no role > and then duly before die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Henry Hiles< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by
misfortune was accidentally killed and that the near Wheel of the said Chaise was moving to
the Death of the Said Henry Hiles< no role > and is of the value of five Shillings and the
property and in the possession of a certain person or persons whose Name or Names is
or are Unknown In Witness where of a sevell the said Coroner as the said John
Overy 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 abovewritten

John Overy< no role > [mark] Foreman