Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Middlesex
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AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth Day of June 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, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Charles Hubberton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Wahnbeck, John Phillips< no role > , Thomas Metcalfe< no role > Cesar Andrews< no role > Jonathan Docker, John Chambers< no role > George Cope< no role >
George Dixon< no role > , William Dodd< no role > , Robert Bendall< no role > , Samuel Blower< no role > , William Morgan< no role > James Hill< no role > and William Andrews< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Charles Hubberton< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Charles Hubberton< no role > on the Second
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being driving a certain Cart drawn by Three
Horses and loaded with Grains a long The Kings Highway near Deptford in the County of Rent And being
riding on the Shaft Horse of the said Three Horses It so happened That the
said Shaft Horse suddenly kicked up and threw the said Charles Hubberton< no role > to
the Ground and the near Wheel of the said Cart Did then and there pass upon and over
the Lions and Privities of him the said Charles Hubberton< no role > By Means whereof he the
said Charles Hubberton< no role > Did then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
receive divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the said Loins and Privities of him
the said Charles Hubberton< no role > of which said Mortal Bruises He the said Charles
Hubberton at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Did Languish for the
Space of Three Hours or thereabouts and then died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Charles Hubberton< no role > in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death
And That the said Shaft Horse and Near wheel of the said Cart were the Cause
of the Death of the said Charles Hubberton< no role > And That the said Horse is of the Price
of Forty Shillings and the said Near Wheel of the Value of Ten Shillings and are
both the Property and in the Possession of Allen of Deptford aforesaid Cow keeper
or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Wahnbeck< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner




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