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

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Image 305 of 63221st March 1783


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 first 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
John Addington< no role > then and there lying dead; upon the Oath of
Robert Archer< no role > James Clarke< no role > Bezer Sellers William Eaton< no role > Benjamin
Carter John< no role > Cock Hildebrand< no role > Smith Benjamin Groves< no role > Peter Colley< no role > John Brown< no role >
John Bickley< no role > Edmund Whitehead< no role > John Linford< no role > Thomas Elliot< no role > and
Joseph Carter< 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 Addington< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Addington< no role > on the Seventeenth
Day of March in the Year aforesaid being Riding a Brown Mare< no role > over a Place called the Hyde in
the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the said Mare then and there
suddenly fell down and threw the said John Addington< no role > to the Ground By Means
whereof he the said John Addington< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by
Misfortune received one Mortal Bruise in and upon the Right Temple of him
the said John Addington< no role > Of which said Mortal Bruise he the said John Addington< no role >
from the said Seventeenth Day of March in the Year aforesaid Untill the Twentieth
Day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County
aforesaid Did Languish and Languishing Did Live Old which said Twentieth
Day of March in the year aforesaid he the said John Addington< no role > at the Parish
aforesaid of the Mortal Bruise aforesaid Did Die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Addington< no role > in Manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to his
Death And that the said Mare was the Cause of the Death of the said John
Addington And is of the Value of Five Shillings and the Property and in the
Possession of Obadiah Legrew< no role > of the said Parish Gentleman or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Archer< 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

Robt Archer [mark] Foreman




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