Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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Image 89 of 63216th 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 Sixteenth 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
Williams King< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Francis Russel< no role > John Smith< no role > John Coster< no role > James Parrett John Fishwick John Munns< no role > John Trundle< no role > Robert Lake< no role >
William Saunders< no role > Joseph Leeck< no role > Jonple Winterbourn William Clarke< no role > John King< no role > Thomas Farrow< no role > Thomas
Liley Thomas Liberty Henry Young< no role > Thomas Toklove< no role > Robert Polly< no role > Christopher Wm< no role > James Dresdale Jacob Purton< no role >
John Cheshett< no role > John Hill< no role > James Calland< no role > & Samuel Smith< 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 William King< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That One John Hughes< no role > on the Thirteenth Day of
November in the Year aforesaid being driving a certain cart [..] drawn by One Horse [..] in
the Kings Highway near Bush Hill in the Parish of Edmonton in the County
aforesaid and the said Williams King< no role > being riding furiously along the said
Highway It so [..] William King< no role > then and there [..]
[..] directely [..]
also at the Parish first a [..] languish and languishing did [..]
which said Fourteenth Day of November in the Year aforesaid he the said William
King at the Parish of Enfield aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Mortal wound
aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That
the said William King< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by Misfortune came to his Death and that the said Cart and Horse were moving to the Death of the
said William King< no role > That the said Horse is of the Price of One Shilling and the Property of Adam Hamilton< no role >
of the Parish of Enfield aforesaid Innholder or of his Assigns and that the said Cart is of the Value of One Shilling and
the Property of Anthony Burn< no role > of the same Place Wheelwright or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Francis Russle< 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

Frans. Russle [mark] Foreman




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