Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 95 of 71221st April 1782


Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Hayes
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first Day of April in the Twenty first 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, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Henry Stevenson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Stroud< no role > , John
Starkey, William Streeton< no role > Senior , James Davis< no role > , William Harland< no role > , James
France, George Rolfe< no role > , Thomas Middleton< no role > , Samuel Sherman< no role > John Gale< no role >
Thomas Weeden< no role > , Edward Knight< no role > William Taylor< no role > Mathew Leather< no role > , Thomas
Palmer
< no role > , Henry Johnson< no role > , Francis Carter< no role > , John Lucas< no role > , Robert Banyan< no role > and
John Whittington< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Henry Stevenson< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said Henry
Stevenson on the Nineteenth Day of April in the Year aforesaid being
riding a certain Black Gelding along the King Highway in the
Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
Henry Stevenson< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell from the said Gelding to and upon the Ground By Means whereof
he the said Henry Stevenson< no role > then and there received One Mortal Fracture
in and upon the Head of him the said Henry Stevenson< no role > of which said
Mortal Fracture he the said Henry Stevenson< no role > then and there died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do That the said
Henry Stevenson< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said John Stroud< no role > 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 and Yeat first abovementioned.

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Stroud< no role > [mark] Foreman




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