London

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Michael Crooked lane in the Ward of Bridge
in London aforesaid on the twenty fifth day of January in the thirty eighth 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 John Smith< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of John How< no role > , Thomas Woollard< no role > , Edward Henryball< no role > ,
James Morton< no role > , William Warters< no role > , Stephen Kent< no role > , William Ball< no role > , Charles Wightman< no role > ,
James Wilshear< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , James Harper< no role > , William Newbald< no role > , and Richard
Tayler , 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 Smith< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that a certain person to the Jurors aforesaid unknown on the
twenty fourth day of January in the year aforesaid being driving a certain
Cart drawn by two horses along and through a certain publick street there
situate and the said John Smith< no role > then being in the said street while the said Cart
was so passing on as aforesaid It so happened that the said John Smith< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell down and against the stone pavement
there and the near 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
John Smith< no role > by means whereof the said John Smith< no role > did then and there
receive divers mortal fractures in and upon his said head of which said
mortal fractures he the said John Smith< no role > did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Smith< no role > in manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune Came to his death.
and not otherwise.And that the near wheel of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said John Smith< no role > and is of the Value of two shillings
And sd house and the property of and in the possession James Robinson< no role > of Stacy Lane Southwark
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John
How 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.

John How< no role >