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 Saint Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth day of June 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
Thomas Granger< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Fisher
< no role > , William, Paul< no role > , Alexander Tate< no role > , George Sewell< no role > , James Fitz Patrick< no role >
Christopher Cook< no role > , Robert Desborough< no role > , John Creese< no role > , John Young< no role > , John Spencer< no role > , Joseph
Johnson
< no role > , John Cloak< no role > Thomas Hignett< no role > , Frederick Westerland< no role > , John Coote< no role > ,
John Nalder< no role > and Richard Clark< 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 Thomas Granger< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Granger< no role > a Lad of the
Age of thirteen Years, on the Eighteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid
being riding upon a certain black Mare in a Street called the French
Exchange in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, It so happened that the said Thomas Granger< no role > then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the said
Mare, and was dragged along the said Street, the left Foot of the said
Thomas Granger< no role > being in the Stirrup Leather, by Means whereof
the said Thomas Ganger then and there received divers Bruises and
Wounds in and upon the Head of him the said Thomas Granger< no role >
of which said Wounds and Bruises he the said Thomas Granger< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, That the said Thomas Granger< no role > in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Fisher< 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 frist about written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jos. Fisher Foreman< no role >




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