City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the second day
of February in the thirty seventh 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 John
Radford now here lying dead by the oath of William Elston< no role > John Smith< no role > John Lee< no role >
William Howard< no role > John Johnson< no role > John Savoy< no role > Christopher Crooks< no role > William Dolby< no role > John Ashby< no role >
Philip Windsor< no role > Luke Cannon< no role > Roger Thomas< no role > John Harris< no role > Isaac Smith< no role > Josiah Maynard< no role >
Thomas Collier< no role > Thomas Cooper< no role > and George Penleaze good and lawful men of the
Borough of Southwark 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
Radford came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Radford< no role > on the
thirty first day of January in the year aforesaid being driving a certain Cart
drawn by two horses along and over a certain bridge situate in the parish of Saint
Magnus the Martyr in the City of London It so happened that the said John Radford< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell to the ground there and the wheels of the said
Cart did then and there go upon and pass over the body of him the said John Radford< no role >
by means whereof the said John Radford< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal fracture
of the ribs of him the said John Radford< no role > of which said mortal fractures he the said John
Radford as well as the said Parish of Saint Magnus the Martyr in the City of London
as also at the aforesaid Parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark aforesaid
in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live and on the same day and
year last aforesaid at the Parish last aforesaid in the [..] Borough of Southwark aforesaid in
the County aforesaid the said John Radford< no role > of the said mortal fractures did dieAnd so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Radford< 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 Cart were moving to the death of the said John Radford< no role > and are
of the value of one shilling and the property of and in the possession of Samuel Day< no role > of Castle
lane Borough Clink within the Borough and County aforesaid CarmanIn Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Elsdon 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.

Wm. Elden< no role > [mark] Foreman




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