City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the tenth day of September
in the thirty third 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 a forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner
or our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of a Man
whose name is unknown now here lying dead By the Oath of John Gray< no role > Robert Adams< no role > Thomas
Popplewell James Roberts< no role > George White< no role > John Vincent< no role > James Hasted< no role > John Timms< no role > Thomas Cassow< no role >
Samuel Addelry< no role > Edward Bale< no role > George Harpley< no role > and James Blanch good and lawful men of the
City of London who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged inquire for our said Lord the King
when how and in what manner the said man unknown came to his death say upon their Oath that
a certain person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown on the ninth day of September in the year
aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being Sovereign a certain Bundle of Hoop
Iron of Great Weight from and out of a certain Warehouse the belonging toGascoigne of the
Parish and Ward aforesid and the said man unknown being standing never the said [..]
and under the said Bundle of Hoops while the same was so lowering as aforesaid It so happened that the
Rope by which the said Bundle of Iron hoops was suspended accidentaly casually and by misfortune
gave way and the said Bundle of Hooper fell with great force and violence to and upon the head of the said
man unknown by means whereof the said man unknown was violently force to and upon
the Ground and against the stone pavement there whereby the said man unknown die then and
there receive one mortal fracture in and upon the head of him the said man unknown of which
said mortal fracture he the said man unknown die the and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said man unknown casually and by misfortune and accidentally
killed. In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Gray< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence hands this Inquisition set their
hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Jno. Gray< no role > [mark] Foreman




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