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 Thirteenth day of April
in the Thirteenth 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
Mary Harbert< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William
Hodgson< no role >
,
John Kemshead< no role >
,
James Free< no role >
,
Joseph Williams< no role >
,
Jacob Knight< no role >
,
Moses Burton< no role >
,
Thomas George< no role >
,
John Seath< no role >
,
John Palmer< no role >
,
John Jowett< no role >
,
Thomas Coates< no role >
,
Peter
Dunbalin< no role >
, and
William Pearce< 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 Mary Harbert came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Mary Harbert on the Eleventh
day of April in the Year aforesaid, being in a certain Hackney Coach
(Numbered 418.) and coming from Saint George's Fields
in the County of
Surry to Union Street in the said Parish of Saint Margaret within the
Liberty and County aforesaid; And that the said Mary Harbert died
suddenly in the said Hackney Coach, by the Visitation of God in a
Natural Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury from
Richard Gresswell< no role >
the Coachman, or any other Person, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroners, as the said
William
Hodgson< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors. on the behalf of himself and the
rest of the Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written
Tho. Prickard< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
W. Hodgson [mark] Foreman