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

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Image 526 of 6317th November 1795


London


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Coroner [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken in London aforesaid
on the seventh day of November in the thirty sixth 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 George Sergeant now here lying dead
by the oath of Richard Dixon< no role > William Wilson< no role > John Horner< no role > Joseph Neale< no role > John Fairburn< no role >
Robert Crump< no role > Martin Butler< no role > William Harvey< no role > William Joseph Rogers< no role > Isaac Lermitte
Thomas Barnett< no role > John Poole< no role > James Hampier< no role > William Lawrence< no role > William Nowler Edward
Buttenshaw John Rea Junior Charles Deinis< no role > and Samuel Shenstone good 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 George Serjeant< no role > came
to his death say upon their oath that a certain person to the Jurors aforesaid unknown on the
fifth day of November in the Year aforesaid being driving a certain Cart drawn by two horses
along and through a certain Publick street and Common highway called the Minories Situate
in the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid It so happened that the said George
Serjeant who was then and there passing along the said street accidentally casually and
by misfortune fell backward into the said street whilst the said Cart was so passing on
as aforesaid and the off wheel of the said Cart did then and there accidentally go upon
and pass over the body of him the said George Serjeant< no role > by means whereof the said George
Serjeant did then and there receive divers mortal bruises in and upon the breasts
Stomach and other parts of his body of which said mortal bruises the said George [..]
Serjeant did then and there instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said George Serjeant< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came by his death and not otherwise In
Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Dixson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. 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

Richard [mark] Dixson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.




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