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 nineteenth day of August in the thirty seventh year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Susanna Shepherd< no role > now
here lying dead by the oath of William Pettit< no role > , Henry Beedel< no role > , Thomas Massey< no role > ,
Isaac Ward< no role > , William Morss< no role > , George Stonard< no role > , Thomas Acton< no role > , John Kempson< no role > , John
Hunt,< no role > Arthur Franklin< no role > , Charles Spilsbury< no role > , John Francis< no role > , William Belcher< no role > ,
Ralph Monk< no role > , James Hutchinson< no role > , and Daniel Hemwood< 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 Susanna Shepherd< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that on the seventeenth
day of August in the year aforesaid at the parish of Allhallows the less in the Ward of
Dowgate in London aforesaid the said Susanna Shepherd< no role > being standing near unto and between a certain
house there situate and the tail of a certain Cart loaded with bricks It so happened that
the wheel of a certain other Cart drawn by two horses which was then and there passing
along accidentally casually and by misfortune struck against the shafts of the said last
loaded with bricks which occasioned a certain horse which was in the shafts of the said
last mentioned Cart to move, by means of which said sticking against the Shafts of
the said last mentioned Cart and the motion of the said horse which was therein the tail
of the said lastmentioned Cart struck and forced the said Susanna Shepherd< no role > to and
against the wall of the said house whereby the said Susanna Shepherd< no role > did then and
there receive one mortal bruise and contusion in and upon her Stomach of which said
mortal bruise and contusion she the said Susanna Shepherd< no role > from the said Seventeenth day
of the said month of August in the year aforesaid until the eighteenth day of the same
month of August in the same year as well at the said parish of allhallows the less in the
Ward of Dowgate in London aforesaid as also at the firstmentioned parish of Saint Bartholomew
the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did languish and languishing
did live and on the same day and year last aforesaid at the parish last aforesaid
in the Ward last aforesaid in the City of London aforesaid the said Susanna Shepherd< no role >
of the said mortal bruise and contusion did die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon the
oath aforesaid do say that the said Susanna Shepherd< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise
And that the [..] said Cart drawn by two horses and the said two horses drawing the
same were moveing to the death of the said Susanna Shepherd< no role > and are of the value of five pounds and the property of and in the possession of
John Holyland< no role > of Broken wharf in the said City of London Carman In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said William Pettit< no role > the foremand 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 Pettit< no role > [mark] Foreman