Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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Image 317 of 6325th April 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the fifth Day of April 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
Andrew Woolckin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edward Ball< no role > Thomas Marriott< no role > Enoch Davis< no role > William Little< no role > Thomas Solby< no role >
William Williams< no role > Jonathan Cole< no role > William Seal< no role > William Barton< no role > Charles
Hall Stephen Burrowes Joseph Blandford< no role > Charles Stanbridge William
Winder and William Scarlett< 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 King, when how, and by what Means, the
said Andrew Woolckin< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Andrew Woolckin< no role > on the Third Day
of April in the Year aforesaid being upon a Ladder in a Been Cellar belonging to
Samuel Whitbread< no role > Esquire situate in Chiswell Street in the Parish and County
aforesaid And being endeavouring to set down a Wooden Pail which he then and there
had and held in the Right Hand It so happened That he the said Andrew Woolckin< no role >
then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Ladder
to and against a Butt filled with Beer And from thence to and against a certain Tub
called a Shiving Tub filled with Wooden Shives By Means whereof he the said
Andrew Woolckin< no role > then and there received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the
Head Body and Sides of him the said Andrew Woolckin< no role > Of which said Mortal
Bruises he the said Andrew Woolckin< no role > then and there instantly Died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Andrew Woolckin< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Edward Ball< 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

Edwd Ball [mark] Foreman




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