City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex to wit }

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fieldswithin the Liberty of
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County
of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of January in the 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our
said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on view of the body of Jane Price< no role >
Then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Solomon Moxey< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , George Hambly< no role >
Stephen Prickard< no role > , John Frasier< no role > , James Bridge< no role > , Joseph Railton< no role > , William Werndley< no role > , Thomas Wild< no role >
George Dean< no role > , Blanch Clark Nille< no role > , John Crummant< no role > , William Murray< no role > Thomas Dougan< no role > and Thomas Green< no role >
good and lawfull men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how and by whatmeans
the said Jane Price< no role > come to her Death, do upon their Oath say That
on the Twentieth day of January in the year aforesaid, William Hammerton< no role > was carefully
driving a certain Cart drawn by three Horses and loaded with Coals in a certain Street called
Oxenden Street in the parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and the said Jane
Price
< no role > at the same time being on foot crossing Oxenden Street aforesaid, It so happened that the said
Jane Price< no role > did fall down in the said street near unto the off Wheel of the said last and that the
said off wheel of the said last then and there Casually by Misfortune and against the Will of the said
William Hammerton< no role > , did goupon and pass over the Body and Head of the said Jane Price< no role > , by Means
whereof she the said Jane Price< no role > did then and there Casually by Misfortune and against the will
of the said William Hammerton< no role > , receive one mortal Fracture in and upon her Head, of which
said mortal Fracture she the said Jane Price< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Jane Price< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid, Casually by Misfortune and against the will of the said William Hammerton< no role >
came to her Death, and not otherwise, and that the said off wheel of the said Cart moved to the Death
of the said Jane Price< no role > , and is of the Value of five Shillings and the Property and in the possession
of Forsith of Durham yard in the Parish aforesaid Coal Merchant, or of his Assigns.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Solomon Moxey< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said fellows, in their presence have to this inquisition
not their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role >
Coroner .
Soloman Moxey
Foreman




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