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

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MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Pyed Ball
in the Parish of Saint Mary Islington in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fifth 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
Samuel Newton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Donald Mac Donald< no role > John Page< no role > Richard labour Isaac Bowles< no role > , John How< no role > , Thomas
Barker Thomas Capps, George Dyson< no role > Robert Holby< no role > Archibald Ellis< no role > , John Malkin< no role > John Cart< no role >
Charles Brice< no role > Adams Winlow< no role > Zachariah Cox< 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 Samuel Newton< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Samuel Newton< no role > on the Thirteenth Day
of July in the Year aforesaid being riding a Grey Golding along a Place caller Dusales
Lane in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said Samuel
Newton then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from the said
Golding to and upon the Ground By means whereof he the said Samuel Newton< no role >
then and there received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head and Body of
him the said Samuel Newton< no role > Of which said mortal Bruises he the said Samuel
Newton from the said thirteenth Day of July in the Year aforesaid untill the
Twenty second Day of July in the same Year at the Parish and County aforesaid
Did Languish and Languishing did Live, on which said Twenty second Day
of July in the Year aforesaid he the said Samuel Newton< no role > at the Parish aforesaid
in the County aforesaid of the mortal Bruises aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Samuel Newton< no role > in manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death
And that the said Grey Gelding [..] was moving to that Death of the said Samuel
Newton And< no role > is of the Price of Twenty Shillings And the Property and in the
Possession of Thomas Oldershaw< no role > of the Parish and County aforesaid Brewer or of
his assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Donald Mac Donald< 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
Donl. Mac Donald [mark] Foreman




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