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

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Image 85 of 6327th November 1781


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Enfield in the County of
Middlesex , the Seventh Day of November in the twenty second 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
Thomas Bird< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Daniel Wood< no role > William Smith< no role > John Glasscock< no role > George Draper< no role > Samuel English Auther
Coventy William Wingington Thomas Boswell< no role > Edward Green< no role > William Garne Anthony< no role >
Bennett John Swarn John Read< no role > William Palmer< no role > Joseph Winterbourn William Hobkirk John< no role >
Joyce Robert Lake< no role > Charles Branford Henry Bland< no role > Loom worth Dean and Joseph Leech< 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 Thomas Bird< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Bird< no role > on the second Day of
November in the Year aforesaid being the Driver of a certain Waggon drawn by
four Horses which was [..] The Kings Highway near Hoddesdon
in the County of [..] shafts of the said Waggon If so
happened that to [..] then and there accidentally [..]
[..] Two near wheels of
the same [..] aforesaid in [..]
Middlesex [..] did languish [..] on which said sixth Day of [..]
November in the Year [..] Thomas Bird< no role > at the Parish of Enfield aforesaid [..]
in the County of Middlesex aforesaid of the [..] aforesaid did die and so the Jurors [..]
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas Bird< no role > in Manner and by [..]
means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and that
the said Two Near Wheels of the said Waggons were the Cause of the Death of the said Thomas Bird< no role > and are
each of the value of Two Shillings and Six pence and the property and in the possession
of James Vaughan< no role > of the said Parish [..] of Enfield in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Tanner or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Daniel Wood< 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

The mark of
Daniel [mark] Wood< no role > [mark] Foreman




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