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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Sign of the Coach and Horses in the Parishes of Heston
and Isleworth in the County Middlesex the Twenty Sixth Day of May in the 25 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 > Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body William Saunders< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Thomas Pocock< no role > Robert Barrett< no role >
Ralph Sharvill< no role > , John Gatfield< no role > , George Higgs< no role > , John Butler< no role > , Abraham Dee< no role > , John Wilson< no role > Robert
Sarmon, William Pocock< no role > , Francis Collier< no role > , Jacob Cave< no role > , James Hopkins< no role > Timothy Lewis< no role >
Jacob Rooke< no role > , Richard Judge< no role > and Robert Lake< 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 William Saunders< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That Thomas Pulton< no role > on the
Twenty Third day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid in a Certain Common
Public Highway called the Kings Highway being carefully driving a certain Coach called the Southampton
Stage drawn by four Horses, And the said William Saunders< no role > in endeavouring to get upon the Roof of the said
Coach by Climbing up the near hind Wheel of the said Coach as it was going on It so happened that the said
William Saunders< no role > accidentally Casually and by misfortune kept from the said near hind Wheel of the said
Coach to and upon the Ground by means whereof the said hind Wheel of the said Coach so drawn as aforesaid
did then and there Accidentally casually and by Misfortune Violently go upon and pass over the Head of him
the said William Saunders< no role > by means whereof he the said William Saunders< no role > did then and there receive one Mortal
Bruise in and upon the Head of him the said William Saunders< no role > of Which said mortal Bruise he the said William
Saunders did then and there Instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
William Saunders< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally Casually and by misfortune came to
his Death and not otherwise And that the said Coach and Horses are the Property and in the Possession of John
William Brocks< no role > of the Parish and County aforesaid or of his Assigns And that the said hind Wheel of the said
Coach was moving to the Death of the said William Saunders< no role > and is of the Value of One Shilling

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said, Thomas Pocock< 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 Year first abovementioned

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

his
Thomas [mark] Pocock [mark] Foreman
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