Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at [..]
the parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark on the sixth day of April in
the thirty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 Samuel Moggeridge< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Thomas Holme< no role >
William Jagg< no role > Thomas Crooks< no role > John Lee< no role > John Overy< no role > Thomas Cooper< no role > Thomas Keeper John Johnson< no role >
James Blyth< no role > Philip Windsor< no role > Luke Cannon< no role > William Bridger< no role > James Stephens< no role > Jacob Dennis John Morgan< no role >
Decimas Haywood< no role > Robert Wells< no role > and Richard Partridge< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London 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 Samuel Moggeridge< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Samuel
Moggeridge on the fifth day of April in the year aforesaid being then in a certain street there called the Maze
and then and there going after a certain ball which he the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > had been playing with and
which ball he the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > had threw from him It so happened that the Samuel
Moggeridge in going after the said Ball fell to and against the ground there And that a certain
Cart drawn by one house being then and there passing along and through the said street It so
happened that the off wheel of the said Cart while the same was then and there passing on as aforesaid
and while the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > was on the ground there as aforesaid accidentally casually
and by misfortune dod go to and against the head of him the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > by means
whereof he the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > did then and there receive one mortal wound and
contusion in and upon the head of him the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > of which said mortal
wound and contusion he the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > did then and there die And that the off wheel
of the said Cart was then and there moving to the death of him the said Samuel Moggeridge< no role > and
is of the value of [..] and is the property of and in the possession of William Hobson< no role > of the parish
of Saint John Southwark within the Borough afsd in the County aforesaid And so the Jurors afsd
upon then Oath aforesaid do say that Samuel Moggeridge< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was mortally bruised and killed and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Hulme< no role > the foreman of the
said Juror's 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.

Thomas Hulme [mark] Foreman< no role >