City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 63 of 86128th June 1792


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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of June in
the thirty 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 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 Henry
Webb now here lying dead by the Oath of William Burt< no role > , Thomas Taylor< no role > , William Puckridge, Nathan
Brown, John Blacket< no role > , Nathaniel Streat< no role > , Thomas Meares< no role > , Doctor Messenge, John Castle< no role > , William
Catchpole, James Freshfield< no role > , John Dolphin< no role > , Thomas Tisdale< no role > , Peter White< no role > , James Atchinson< no role > , Henry Madgin,
Thomas Frith< no role > , Henry Weatherhead< no role > , and William Morss< no role > , good and lawful men of the Parish and Ward
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 Henry Webb< no role > came to his death say Upon their Oath that the
said Henry Webb< no role > on the twenty Sixth day of June in the thirty second Year aforesaid being driving
a certain Cart drawn by three Horses along and through a Certain Road situate at Hoxton in the
County of Middlesex It so happened that the Stick fixed to the Chain or Trace belonging to the middle
Horse drawing the said Cart accidentally and by misfortune did strike against the said Henry
Webb by means whereof the said Henry Webb< no role > was then and there forced to the Ground there and the
near Wheel of the said Cart did then and there accidentally go upon and pass over the body of
him the said Henry Webb< no role > by means whereof he the said Henry Webb< no role > did then and there receive
divers mortal Bruises and Contusions in and upon his said Body of which said Mortal Bruises and
Contusions he the said Henry Webb< no role > did then and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Henry Webb< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed And that the said near Wheel of the said Cart
was moving to the death of the said Henry Webb< no role > and is of the value of One Shilling and the property and
in the possession of Thomas Richardson< no role > and John Walford< no role > of Grays Inn Lane in the said County
of Middlesex In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Burt< no role > the
Foreman of the said Jurors on Behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence
xd have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day Year and place first above Written

Wm Burt [mark] Foreman




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