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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of May in the Tenth 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
Margaret Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Wilson< no role > , James Neild< no role > , John Middleton< no role > Joseph Ferneby< no role > , Andrew Wood< no role > ,
Richard Notingham< no role > , Thomas Carroll< no role > , William Warrock< no role > , William
Taplin< no role > , George Bleaden< no role > , William Kelly< no role > , Thomas Aldridge< no role > ,
William Coomes< no role > and Thomas Carter< 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 Margaret Taylor< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That on the Eleventh day of May in the Year
aforesaid one Daniel Rawlin< no role > was driving a certain Coach drawn by two Horses,
in Swallow Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
and the said Margaret Taylor< no role > being then crossing the said Street, before and near
unto the said Horses It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
the said Margaret Taylor< no role > was thrown down, and that the two Near wheels of the
said Coach did then and there pass over the Head of the said Margaret Taylor< no role > , by
Means whereof she the said Margaret Taylor< no role > did then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the
Forehead of her the said Margaret Taylor< no role > , of which said mortal Fracture she
the said Margaret Taylor< no role > from the said Eleventh day of May in the Year aforesaid
until the Fifteenth day of the same Month and Year at St. George's Hospital in the
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did
languish and languishing did live, on which said Fifteenth day of May in the
Year aforesaid, at the Hospital aforesaid, of the mortal Fracture aforesaid,
she the said Margaret Taylor< no role > did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, That the said Margaret Taylor< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death
and not otherwise. And that the said two Near Wheels of the said Coach
so drawn as aforesaid, were moving to the Death of the said Margaret Taylor< no role >
and are the Property and in the Possession of Lady Erskine of the Parish of
St. Mary le bone in the said County of Middlesex or of her Assigns
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Wilson< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos. Wilson< no role > Foreman