MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the Seventh Day of February 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, in View of the Body of
Thomas Stanton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Hall< no role > William Just John Armstrong< no role > Samuel Harper< no role > Thomas
Matthews Joseph< no role > Pettock Samuel Warren< no role > Robert Show an John Matthews< no role > an
John Davies< no role > Edward Hickin< no role > Joshua Flather< 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 Thomas Stanton< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Stanton< no role > on the Thirtieth day
of January in the year aforesaid being on the Shafts of a Waggon which was
then Drawing by Six Horses along the Kings Highway in Hackney Read in
the Parish of Saint John Hackney in the County aforesaid It so happened That
he the said Thomas Stanton< no role > then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
fell from the Shafts of the said Waggon to and upon the [..] pound And the Shaft
Horse then and there Struck the said Thomas Stanton< no role > with his hinder Feet by
Means Whereof he the said Thomas Stanton< no role > then and there received divers Mortal
Bruises in and upon the Legs Ann Belly Loins and P [..] ties of him the said Thomas
Stanton of which said Mortal Bruises he the said Thomas Stanton< no role > from the
said Thirtieth Day of January in the year aforesaid Matter the Fourth Day of
February in the same Year at a certain Hospital called Saint Bartholomew
Hospital in the City of London Did Languish and Languishing did Live On Which
said Fourth day of February in the Year aforesaid he the said Thomas Stanton< no role > of the
Hospital aforesaid of the Mortal Bruises aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Stanton< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death And that the
said Shaft Horse was the Cause of the Death of the said Thomas Stanton< no role > and is of
the value of Twenty Shillings And the Property and in the Possession of Samuel Rhodes< no role >
of Hoxton Farmer or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Hale< 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 > Coroner

Richd Hale [mark] Foreman