MIDDLESEX
.
(To wit.)}
AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John at Hackney
in the County of
Middlesex
, the Seventeenth Day of June 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
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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, an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Marshall< no role >
,
Richard Searle< no role >
,
James Carr< no role >
,
Thomas Wilkinson< no role >
,
Thomas Sarson< no role >
,
John Lowthorpe< no role >
,
Thomas Barnett< no role >
,
John Jermy< no role >
,
Charles Soper< no role >
,
William Northover< no role >
,
Richard Draper< no role >
,
William Fletcher< no role >
, and
Thomas Gross< 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
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came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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on the Fourteenth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Twenty one months
or thereabouts and being standing in The middle of The Kings Highway at Kingsland
in the Parish and County aforesaid And some Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid
unknown being then and there driving a Cart drawn by Two Horses along the said
Highway It so happened That the said
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was by the Foremost of the said Horses then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune beat to the Ground And the off wheel of the said Cart
did then and there pass upon and over the Head of her the said
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By means
whereof she the said
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then and there received divers mortal Bruises in
and upon the said Head of her the said
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of which said mortal Bruises
she the said
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune Came to her Death. And
That the said Off Wheel was the Cause of the Death of the said
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and is
of the Value of Ten Shillings and is the Property and in the Possession of
Nicholas Carter< no role >
of Grub Street
in The City of London
Butcher
or of his Assigns
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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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
Wm. Marshall [mark] Foreman