MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The
Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of November in the Twenty third 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
John Bath< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Obadiah Woodcock< no role > William Bedford< no role > William Gascoigne< no role > , Josiah Stone< no role > , John Hagen< no role >
Thomas Carpenter< no role > , Joseph Hall< no role > , Michael Weymouth< no role > , William Wilcox< no role > George
Atkins Thomas< no role > Barrett and John Porter< 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 John Bath< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Bath< no role > on the Fourteenth Day of
November in the Year aforesaid being Crossing The Kings Highway near The Parkhouse
in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish land County aforesaid And a certain Horse
drawing a Cart Coming furiously along the said Highway It so happened That
the said Horse then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune struck
the said John Bath< no role > in and upon the Right Side of the Head of him the said John
Bath By Means whereof he the said John Bath< no role > then and there received One
Mortal Bruise [..] in and upon the said Right Side of the Head of him the said
John Bath< no role > Of which said Mortal Bruise [..] he the said John Bath< no role > then and there
[..] Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their [..] aforesaid Do say
The the said John Bath< no role > in Manner and by the Memory aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death and That the said Horse was the
cause of the Death of the said John Bath< no role > and is of the Value of Ten Shillings
and the Property and in the Possession of Sarah Peaches< no role > of the Parish of
Saint Ann in the said County Widow or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Obadiah Woodcock< 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
Obah. Woodcock [mark] Foreman