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 fourteenth Day of March 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
Joseph Gladden< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Carter< no role > John Pacey< no role > William Earle< no role > William Lester< no role > John Lester< no role > Thomas
Matthews John Stacey< no role > Andrew Buck< no role > John Brocks< no role > Richard Cooper< no role > John
Skinner William Wilson< no role > George Bridge< no role > and John Williams< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there only
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Joseph Gladden< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Joseph Gladden< no role > on the Eighth Day of
March in the Year aforesaid being driving a Cart drawn by One Horse a long
The Kings Highway in the Parish of Saint Mathew Bethnall Green in the
County aforesaid And being endeavouring to get on the said Cart It so happened
That he the said Joseph Gladden< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell to the Ground and the near Wheel of the said cart Did then and there pass
upon and over the Belly and Louis of him the said Joseph Gladden< no role > By Means< no role >
whereof he the said Joseph Gladden< no role > then and there received divers Mortal Bruises
in and upon the said Belly and Louis of him the said Joseph Gladden< no role > of which
said mortal Bruises he the said Joseph Gladden< no role > from the said Eighth Day of March
in the Year aforesaid untill the Eleventh Day of the same month in the same Year at the
Parish last aforesaid in the County aforesaid And at the Parish first abovementioned And also at
the Parish of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise White Chapell 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 Eleventh Day of March in the Year aforesaid he the said Joseph Gladden< 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 Joseph Gladden< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death And That the said
Near Wheel of the said Cart was the Cause of the Death of the said Joseph Gladden< no role > and is
of the Value of Two Shillings and Six pence and the Property and in the Possession of
John Walton< no role > of the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch aforesaid Baker or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Carter< 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

Thomas Carter< no role > [mark] Foreman