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

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Informations of Witnesses taken at the
Parish of Christ Church in the ward of
Farringdon within in London aforesaid on
the 3d. day of May 1792 on view of the Body
of William Pearson< no role > now here lying dead.

Samuel Rascoe< no role > [..] of No. 4
Curtain Row< no role > in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
in the County of Middlesex Painter maketh Oath that
about the hour of five in the afternoon of Tuesday last
Dept. being at Work on Mr. Paynes House Newgate Street
London near the Corner of Butcher Lane Dept said a Mail Coach
drawn by two Horses and One other Mail Coache fastened
behind the same pass [..] by Mr. Paynes Davis< no role > Newgate
Street aforesaid Edwards Cheapside Dept. saw the deced an Infant under
the near Hind Wheel of the Hinder most Coachthat the
Wheel passed over the Bread of the decedthat a Man
passing by immediately took the deced up that the deced
appeared sensible and cryed and informed said Man
where he lived in Ivy Lanethat the said Man went
towards Ivy Lane with the decedthat he appeared very
much parkDept. saw no more of the deced until this
Evening when he saw him lying Dead at his Fathers
house in Ivy Lane aforesaidDept. has heard the deced died
Yesterday Morning at Saint Bartholomew Hospital
of the Injury he received by the Wheel passing over him.

Sworn the 3d day of
May 1792 before me}

Saml Ruscoe< no role >




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