London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is
to say at the oarish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripplegate without in London
aforesaid on the twenty first day of July in the thirty seventh 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 Philip Norton< no role > Taylor now here lying dead by the oath of
John George< no role > Tower Robert Meacock< no role > William Lucock< no role > John Stones Samuel Hinson< no role > William
Gillman Charles Russell< no role > William Hayward< no role > Robert Horne< no role > Joseph Dixon< no role > William Prigg< no role >
Robert French< no role > John Smith< no role > Powell John Moore< no role > Richard Bradley< no role > William Taylor< no role > and Samuel
Bird 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 Philip Norton< no role > Taylor came to his death say upon their oath that on the twentieth
day of July in the year aforesaid a certain Cart drawn by three horses of which one Thomas
Sadler was the driver being passing along and through a certain publick street and Kings common
highway there situate called Fore street and the said Philip Norton< no role > Taylor an infant being in the
said street accidentally casually and by misfortune fell to the ground close before the off wheel
of the said Cart whereby the off wheel of the said Cart did then and there accidentally casually and
by misfortune go upon and pass over the head of him the said Philip Norton< no role > Taylor by means
whereof the said Philip Norton< no role > Taylor did then and there receive divers mortal bruises and fractures
in and upon his said head of which said mortal bruises and fractures he the said Philip Norton< no role > Taylor
did then and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the
said Philip Norton< no role > Taylor in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by misfortune came to his death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John George< no role > Tower 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.

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