Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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Image 95 of 63211th December 1781


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary Stratford Bow in the County of
Middlesex , the Eleventh Day of December 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
Ann Simmonds< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Charles Balderston< no role > William Procter< no role > John Percot< no role > Thomas Jassefield< no role > John Miles< no role > John
Downing Robert Whitaker< no role > Lawrence Bodkin Henry Parnell< no role > William Baines William
Mason Henry Barnes< no role > and Samuel Whiffling< 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 Ann Simmonds< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Ann Simmonds< no role > on the Eighth Day of
December in the Year aforesaid being lying in the Kings Highway in the Parish and
County aforesaid It so happened That the near wheel of a certain Cart which
was [..] being by Three Horses along the said Highways [..] then and there
[..] casually and by Misfortune pass [..] Head and
[..] said Ann Simmonds< no role > [..] the said
[..]
[..] Misfortune came to her Death [..]
[..] the cause of the Death of the said Ann Simmonds< no role > [..] of the
Value of Twenty Shillings and the Property of some Person or Persons to the
Jurors aforesaid unknown

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Charles Balderston< 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

Charles Balderston [mark] Foreman




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