MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary White Chapell in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty third Day of July in the Twenty fifth 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 White< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Byworth< no role > , John Johnson< no role > , James Fletcher< no role > , William Pitcher< no role > , Richard Eastcoat, John
Cock, John Tomkins< no role > , John Willis< no role > William Smith< no role > , Benjamin Gofton< no role > , Nash Henry< no role >
Williamson and William Swan< 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 White< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John White< no role > on the Twenty first Day of
July in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the age of Nine Years or thereabouts and
being sitting on a certain Carriage called a Breaking in Carriage which was then drawing
by Two Horses in Brick Lane in the Parish of Saint Mathew Bethnall Green in the
County aforesaid It so happened That he the said John White< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell from the said Carriage to and upon the Ground And the
Off Hind Wheel of the said Carriage did then and there pass upon and over the Head and
Body of him the said John White< no role > By means whereof he the said John White< no role > did then
and there receive divers mortal Bruiser in and upon his said Head and Body, Of which
said Mortal Bruises he the said John White< no role > from the said Twenty first Day of July
in the Year aforesaid untill the Twenty third Day of the same month in the same
Year at the Parish last aforesaid and also at the Parish first abvoementioned (to wit) in
a certain Hospital there situate called The London Hospital did Languish and Languishing
did live, On which said Twenty third Day of July in the Year aforesaid he the said John
White in the Hospital aforesaid of the mortal Bruises aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon these Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John White< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death And that
the said Off Hind wheel of the said carriage was the cause of the Death of the said John
White and is of the Value of five Shillings and the Property of some Person or Persons to
the Jurors aforesaid unknown

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Byworth< 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 Byworth [mark] Foreman