City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex
.}
to wit.
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Knights bridge
in 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 Ninth day of November in the Seventeenth 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
Edward Atwood< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James
Jobbins< no role >
,
Jonathan Hemborough< no role >
,
James Barr< no role >
,
Joseph Swarn< no role >
,
William
Knott< no role >
,
Thomas Read< no role >
,
Edward Hally< no role >
,
Thomas Ferguson< no role >
, Henry List,
James
Green< no role >
,
Joseph Halsy< no role >
and
Charles Pignell< 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
Edward Atwood< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
Edward Atwood< no role >
on the
Eighth day of November in the Year aforesaid, being riding
upon a Seat in the Forepart of a certain Cart drawn by one
Horse in the King's Highway at kensington Gore
in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
And that the said
Edward Atwood< no role >
then and there Accidentally
Casually and by misfortune fell off and from the said Cart unto
the Ground, and that the near Wheel of the said
[..] over
the Head of the said
Edward Atwood< no role >
, by means whereof the
said
Edward Atwood< no role >
did then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune receive one mortal Fracture and
upon his Head, of which said mortal Fracture he the said
Edward Atwood< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Edward
Atwood< 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
James Jobbins< no role >
Foreman
of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals the Day Year and Place first above written
Tho Prickard< no role >
Coroner
James Jobbins< no role >
Foreman