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

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Image 473 of 63227th October 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To Wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Pancras in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty seventh Day of October in the twenty sixth 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
William Rogers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Long< no role > , John Barton< no role > , John Morris< no role > , James Ross< no role > , Richard Wright< no role > , Thomas Phillips< no role >
George Benson< no role > , Edward Forture< no role > , John Burrows< no role > , Thomas Feild< no role > , Swansey Kenne< no role > and Joseph Brown< 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 William Rogers< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Rogers< no role > on the Twenty fifth Day of
October in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Three Years and three Quarters or
thereabouts And being standing near to a Place called the Cow Lair in the Parish and County
aforesaid the said Mare their and there kicked the said William Rogers< no role > with both her time
Legs in and upon the Right Side of The Belly of him the said William Rogers< no role > Byand
then and there gave to the said William Rogers< no role > one mortal Bruise in and upon the said right
Side of the Belly of him the said William Rogers< no role > of which said mortal Bruise he the said
William Rogers< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
That the said William Rogers< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his Death
And That the said Mare was the Cause of the Death of the said William Rogers< no role > and
is of the Price of Ten Shillings and six pence and the Property and in the Possession of
Even of Lambs Condict Street in the County aforesaid Baker or his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroners as the said William Long< 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
Wm. Long [mark] Foreman




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