City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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11th January 1776 - 30th December 1776

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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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirty first day of January in the Sixteenth 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
William Stribbs< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry Toy< no role >
John Storr< no role > , John Lyon< no role > , John Stowers< no role > , George Daws< no role > , Alexander Shenton< no role >
William Miller< no role > , John Davis< no role > , Robert Minis< no role > , Ephraim Woods< no role > , Joseph
Wedgborough
< no role > and John Bedwell< 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 Stubbs< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Stibbs< no role > on the Seventeenth
day of January in the Year aforesaid being Walking in Fleetstreet in
the Parish of St. Bride London, and that a Man unknown was then
carefully driving a Cart loaded with Coals in the said Street, It so
happened that the said William Stubbs< no role > slipped in his feet and fell down
by the side of the said Cart, and that the Off wheel of the said Cart then and
there Accidentally casually and by Misfortune passed over the Right
Leg of the said William Stubbs< no role > , Whereby the said William Stubbs< no role > then
and tere received one mortal wound in and upon his Right Leg,
of which said Mortal Wound he the said William Stubbs< no role > from the said
Seventeenth day of January the Year aforesaid until the Twenty-
ninth day of the same Month and Year at the said Parish of St. Margaret
Within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did Languish and Languishing did
live, on which said Twenty ninth day of January, at the Parish of St.
Margaret aforesaid he the said William Stubbs< no role > of the Mortal wound
aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said William Stubbs< no role > in Manner and by the means
aforesaid Accidentally Causally and by Misfortune came to his death
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Henry Toy< no role > have to this Inquisition set their Hands
and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Henry Toy< no role > Foreman




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