London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the Parish of
Saint
Allhallows Barking
in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the
thirty first day of August
in the thirty fifth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third King of Great Britain & 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 Southwark
on view
of the body of
John Kirk< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of
John Gray< no role >
John Drake< no role >
James Blanch< no role >
Charles Burnett< no role >
John Groser< no role >
James Lamb< no role >
Joseph Fennell< no role >
Robert Adams< no role >
Thomas
Walker John Newell< no role >
Charles Chorley Joshua Jeremy
John Jones< no role >
John Adderley< no role >
and Luke
Watts good< no role >
and lawful men of the City of London
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
John Kirk< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said John
Kirkon the twenty ninth day of August in the Year aforesaid and certain other persons
being working in a certain Wheeled Crane weighing certain bales of Linen of great weight
from and out of a certain Lighter lying alongside a certain Quay there situate called Galley
Quay It so happened that the sd Crane by means of the weight of the said bales of Linen
went round with great Velocity of reason whereof the said
John Kirk< no role >
was violently thrown
about in and against the said Crane and thereby then and there accidentally casually
and by misfortune received several mortal wounds and bruises in and upon his head
face and divers parts of his body of which said Mortal wounds and bruises the said John
Kirk did then and there instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said
John Kirk< 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
John Gray< 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 abovewritten
Jno. Gray< no role >
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