London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the twenty seventh day of January in the thirtyseventhsixth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc 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 Sarah Higgins< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of George Holton< no role > William Woollat< no role > William
Hearne< no role > George Cooper< no role > Thomas Cato< no role > Thomas Palmer< no role > Henry Gilbert< no role > Henry Freake< no role > William
Reeves< no role > William Powell< no role > Thomas Stafford< no role > Thomas Hammond< no role > George Peacock< no role > Edward
Parbury< no role > William Robbins< no role > William Guy< no role > William Jones< no role > and Hugh Richards< 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 Sarah
Higgins< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that a certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is unknown on the fifth day of January in the year aforesaid being driving a certain
Coach drawn by two horses along and down a certain publick street and King's Common
highway there called Saint Andrews hill situate in the parish of Saint Andrew Holborn
in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid and the said Sarah Higgins< no role > being
crossing the said street It so happened that the near forewheel of the said Coach did then &
there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and pass over the head of the said
Sarah Higgins< no role > by means whereof the said Sarah Higgins< no role > did then and there receive
divers Mortal fractures and bruises in and upon the head of her the said Sarah Higgins< no role >
of which said mortal fractures and bruises she the said Sarah Higgins< no role > from the said fifth
day of January in the year aforesaid until the twenty sixth day of the same month of January
in the same year as well at the said parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid as also at the abovementioned parish of Saint Bartholomew the
less in the Ward aforesaid in the said City of London did languish and languishing did live and on
the same day and year last aforesaid at London aforesaid in the parish and Ward last aforesaid
the said Sarah Higgins< no role > of the said mortal fractures and bruises did die.And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Higgins< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise
And that the near fore wheel of the said Coach was moving to the death of the said
Sarah Higgins< no role > and is of the value of two shillings and sixpence and the property of and
in the possession of a certain person or persons Whose name or names is or are to the Jurors
aforesaid unknown.In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said George
Holton 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.

George Holton [mark] Foreman