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

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Image 296 of 63212th February 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Mary White Chapple in the County of
Middlesex , the twelfth 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
Jane Williams< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Hammond< no role > Abraham Brown< no role > Richard Tomlinson< no role > John Vango Richard
Furness John Youings John Andrews< no role > Thomas Vango< no role > William Pitches< no role > William
Waterman John, Rogers< no role > William Smith< no role > Henry Stevens< no role > and John Tomkins< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chose, 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 Jane Williams< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Jane Williams< no role > in the Thirty first
Day of January in the Year aforesaid being standing on the Foot Pavement in
The Kings Highway near Ratcliff Cross in the Hamlet of Ratcliff in the Parish
of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid It so happened That an
Over drose Cox which was the driving along the said Highway then and there gored
the said Jane Williams< no role > in and upon the Head Belly Loins and Knees of her the
said Jane Williams< no role > By Means whereof she the said Jane Williams< no role > then and
there received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon her said Head Belly Loins
and Knees of which said mortal Bruises she the said Jane William< no role > from
the said Thirty first Day of January in the year aforesaid Untill the Tenth
Day of February in the same year at the Parish of Saint Mary White< no role > Chapell
aforesaid in the County aforesaid to wit in [..] a certain Hospital there situate
called The London Hospital Did Languish and Languishing Did Live On which
said Tenth Day of February in the Year aforesaid she the said Jane Williams< no role > at
the Hospital aforesaid of the mortal Bruises aforesaid did Die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Jane Williams< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Came to her Death And that the said Cox
was the Cause of the Death of her the said Jane Williams< no role > And is of the Price of
Twenty Shillings And the Property and in the Possession of Samuel Mellish of
the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid Butcher of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Hammond< 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

John Hammond< no role > [mark] Foreman




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