City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 592 of 85823rd July 1799


Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at the
parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of
Surrey on the twenty third day of July in the thirty ninth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 Thomas Willoughby< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of James Florence< no role > John Manning< no role > Thomas
Denslow Thomas Oakford< no role > Daniel Blundell< no role > John Harris< no role > Thomas Crooks< no role > John
Buckle Samuel Hales< no role > William Jagg John Lee< no role > Decimus Hayward< no role > John Sutton< no role >
John Savoy< no role > Delany Clark< no role > and David Wilson< no role > good and lawful men of the
Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County 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 Thomas Willenghby< no role > came to his death say upon their oath
that the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > on the fifteenth day of July in the year aforesaid
being in a certain street and highway called Bankside situate in the parish of Saint
Saviour within the Borough and County aforesaid and a certain person whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid in unknown being driving a certain Cart drawn
by two houses along and through the said street It so happened that that houses drawing
the said Cart did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune run against
the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > and the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > was thereby then and
there accidentally casually and by misfortune run against the said Thomas Willenghby< no role >

and the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > was thereby then and there accidentally forced to
and against the ground and Stone pavement there and the off wheel of the said
Cart did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and pass over
the body of the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > by means whereof the said Thomas Willenghby< no role >
did then and there receive divers mortal bruises and fractures in and upon his
body of which said mortal bruises and fractures he the said Thomas Willenghby< no role >
from the said fifteenth day of July in the year aforesaid until the twenty first day
of the same month of July in the same year as well at the said parish of Saint Saviour
as also at the aforesaid parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough and 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 and County aforesaid the said Thomas Willenghby< no role >
of the said mortal bruises and fractures did die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise and that the off
wheel of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said Thomas Willenghby< no role > and is of the
value of [..] five Shillings and the property and in the possession of James Dowley< no role > of
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James Florence< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on
behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows as their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the

James [mark] Florence< no role > [day year and place first above written]




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