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

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Image 473 of 86119th March 1792


London


T. Shelton
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as the Parish of Saint
Sepulchre in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the nineteenth day of March
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 Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of
Southwark on view of the Body of James Hill< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of John
Blackett, Nathaniel Street< no role > , John Castle< no role > , William Wheeler< no role > , Robert Day< no role > , Charles Dixon< no role > , Towers
Hammont, Henry Tyler< no role > , William Allen< no role > Samuel Tyler< no role > , John Evans< no role > , Thomas Holman< no role > , James
Wilson, John Goater< no role > , Thomas Whitford< no role > Robert Combes< no role > , and Thomas Taylor< 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
James Hill< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said James Hill< no role > on the Sixteenth
day of March in the Year aforesaid being Riding on a Certain Horse along and through a
certain open place called Smithfield and a certain person whose name is unknown being riding
on certain Grey Horse along and through the said open place It so happened that the said Grey
Horse accidentally casually and by Misfortune man to and against the Horse whereon the said James
Hill was riding as aforesaid by means whereof the said James Hill< no role > was then and there thrown from and off
the said Horse to and against the Ground there and the said Horse whereon the said James Hill< no role > was
riding as aforesaid was also thrown to and against the Ground and upon and over the said James
Hill by means whereof the said James Hill< no role > did then and there receive divers Mortal wounds and
bruises in and upon the Head face Nick Back Belly Sides Arms Legs Thighs and other parts of
the Body of him the said James Hill< no role > of which said Mortal Wounds and bruises the said James Hill< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the
said James Hill< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by Misfortune was accidentally
Killed and that the said Horse whereon the said James Hill< no role > was Riding as aforesaid was moving
to the death of the said James Hill< no role > and is of the price of five Shillings and the property and in
the possession of a certain person or persons unknown In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said John Blacket< 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.

John Blacket< no role >
Foreman




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