City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 259 of 6319th May 1795


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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 Ethelburga in the ward of Bishopsgate within
in London aforesaid on the ninth day of May in the thirty fifth 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 Parker< no role > new here lying dead by the oath of
William Allen< no role > William Holmes< no role > John Shepherd< no role > Isaiah Robert< no role > John Evans< no role > Richard
Wright John Hartnell Benjamin Shadbolt Richard Draper< no role > Robert Roper Jonathan
Sleap Charles Wench James Clark< no role > and George Turner< no role > good and lawful men of the
City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to
enquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
Henry Parker< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that a certain person to the
Jurors aforesaid unknown on the eighth day of May in the year aforesaid being driving
a certain Coach drawn by four horses along and through a certain publick street
and Kings common highway called Bishopsgate street situate in the parish and
Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid and the said Henry Parker< no role > being then and there
endeavowing to step the said horses It so happened that the said Henry Parker< no role >
accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell to the Ground there and the near
wheel of the said Coach did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune
go upon and pass ever the head of him the said Henry Parker< no role > by means where of
the said Henry Parker< no role > did then and there receive one mortal [..] fracture
in and upon the head of him the said Henry Parker< no role > of which said Mortal fracture
he the said Henry Parker< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Henry Parker< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Allen< no role > the foreman of the
said Jurors on behalf 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.

Wm. AllenForeman< no role >




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