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

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Image 266 of 63224th November 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Edmonton in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fourth 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 Gladwin< no role > an infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Acott< no role > Daniel Marwell< no role > James Hanscomb< no role > Henry Pistole Roger Tough
James Pidrece< no role > George Gildean< no role > William Hickley< no role > John Harding< no role > William Harvey< no role >
Charles Gurney< no role > James Osborn< no role > and Thomas Ruskin< 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 Gladwin< no role > [..] came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Gladwin< no role > on the Twenty fifth
Day of November in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Thirteen
years or thereabouts and being riding upon a More in The Kings Highway near
The Bourn Gate at Southgate in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened
That he the said John Gladwin< no role > then and there accidentally, casually and by
Misfortune fell from the said Mare to and upon the Ground By means
thereof he the said John Gladwin< no role > then and there received divers mortal Bruises in
and upon the Head and Body of him the said John Gladwin< no role > Of which said
Mortal Bruises he the said John Gladwin< no role > then and there instantly died And
[..] aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid [..] the said
John Gladwin< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally and casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death and That the said make was the cause
of the Death of the said John Gladwin< no role > And is of the Price of Five Shillings And the
Property and in the Possession of Rowland [..] Gladwin< no role > of the Parish and
County aforesaid Smith or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Acott< 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 Acott [mark] Foreman




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