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

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Image 538 of 63110th 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 Aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate
without in London aforesaid on the tenth 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 John Mainey< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
Thomas Lee< no role > George Copeland< no role > Robert Howard< no role > William Marsh< no role > James Harris< no role > Charles
Hill John Elliott< no role > John Peackey< no role > Robert Biggin< no role > Joseph Goodey< no role > John Weedon< no role > Thomas
Williams William Gammon< no role > Thomas Ruggles< no role > William Patten< no role > John Banfield< no role > Joseph
Starling and Edward Cockerton< no role > 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 John Mainey< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that the said John Mainey< no role > on the seventh day of November in the Year aforesaid
being standing on the Shaft of a certain Waggon then passing along a certain publick street
and common highway called Barbican situate in the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid It so happened that the said John Mainey accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from and off the said Shaft of the said Waggon down to and against the Ground and stone pavement there
and the near wheels of the said Waggon did then and there go upon and pass over the body of
him the said John Mainey< no role > by means whereof the said John Mainey< no role > did then and there receive
divers mortal bruises in and upon the back loins and belly of him the said John Mainey< no role > of
which said said mortal bruises the said John Mainey< no role > did then and there instantly die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Mainey< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise
And that the wheels of the said Waggon were moving to the death of the said John Mainey
and are of the value of ten Shillings and the property and in the possession of a certain
person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Thomas Ley< 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.

Thos Ley< no role > [mark]




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