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

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Image 221 of 63227th July 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty seventh Day of July 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
William Vaughan< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Wild< no role > , Robert Bendall< no role > , John Chambers< no role > , William Richards< no role > , William Wand,
Jonathan Docker< no role > , Samuel Knightley< no role > , George Dixon< no role > , Thomas Crutchley< no role > , William
Frazer
< no role > , Alexander Shaw< no role > , and Thomas Trested< 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 Vaughan< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Vaughan< no role > on the Twenty fifth,
Day of July in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Five Years or thereabouts
and being in The Carriage way in The Butcher Row in the Parish and County aforesaid
It so happened That the Off Wheel of a Cart drawn by Two Horses and Loaded with,
Boards Which was then Passing along the said Carriage Way then and there accidentally
casually and by misfortune [..] forced down the said William Vaughan< no role > to the Ground and then and there passed upon and over the Head and neck of him the said William Vaughan< no role > By means whereof
He the said William [..]
[..]
his Death And [..] she said Off wheel [..]
William Vaughan< no role > and is of the value of Two Shillings and Six pence and the [..]
and in the Possession of John Boosey< no role > of Arts Book Lane in the Parish of Saint
George in the said County or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Wild< 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

Wm. Wild [mark] Foreman




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