City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1769 - 27th December 1769

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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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth Day of August in the Ninth 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 City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
William Lee< no role > then and there Lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard James< no role >
William Crockett< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > , George Twigg< no role > , William Davis< no role > , John Mulling< no role > , William
Patterson
< no role > , Robert Bramham< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , William Cronder< no role > , Thomas Wheeler< no role > , Francis
Ruswell
< no role > , and John Parish< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and Charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said William Lee< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say

That the said William Lee< no role > on the Thirteenth day of duly in the
Year Aforesaid at the Parish of St. John the Evangalist in the Liberty aforesaid being Standing on a Wheel of a retain Cart todone
with Bricks at Mr. machraths Lime Whart on Mibbank, with one deg, and the other leg on the said Cart, it to Happened
that the said Cart being on a Stoping Ground Moved back wards whereby he the said William Lee< no role > was thriewn from the said
Cart to the Ground and the said to heel accidentally Calually and by Misfortune went over the left Thigh of him the said William Lee< no role >
by Means where of he the said William Lee< no role > did there and there receive One Mortal Bruise or Wound on his said haft
Thigh of [..] of Horse Inches and Depth of One Juch of which said Mortal Bruise or Wound he the said William Lee< no role >
at the said Parish of St. John the Evangahist aforesaid, and alle at the Parish of St., Margent in the Liberty aforesaid from the
said Thirteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid to the Twelfth day of August in the Year Aforesaid did Languish and
Languishing did Lure on which said Twelfth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of saint Margent
aforesaid (to wit) at the Westminster Hospital in James Street, he the said William Lee< no role > of the Martal Bruise or wound Aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said William Lee< no role > in manner and by there Meany aforesaid Accidentally Caserally and by
Misfortime came to his Death and not otherwise,and that the Wheel of the said Cart was Moving to the Death of him
the said William lee< no role > and is of the Value of Two Shillings and [..] pence of Lawfull Memory of Great Britain and is the Property
and in the Possession of Thomas Bockham< no role > of the said Parish of St, John the Evangalist or of his Assigins In Witness Where by
aswell the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year frist above written

Tho Prickard< no role >
Coroner
Richd James< no role >
Foreman




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