City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1779 - 29th December 1779

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City of 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. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth dayof September in the Nineteenth 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
John Hornsby< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Samuel
Harrison
< no role > William Jones< no role > , Solomon Amaron< no role > Thomas Hill< no role >
John Richardson< no role > James Lynden< no role > Thomas Chapman< no role > , Mark
Gibbs
< no role > Joseph Baker< no role > John Rickerby< no role > , Harry Sidebotham< no role > , Joseph
Dearing
< no role > and Robert Wood< 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 John Hornsby< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Hornsby< no role > on the
Eleventh day of September in the Year aforesaid being Fighting
with Thomas Price< no role > a Laborer in a certain Place called Headon Square
in the Parish of St. Trinity in the Minories within the Liberty of
the Tower Hamlets London, And that it so happened that the said
John Hornsby< no role > then and there Casually and by Misfortune fell
upon the Stone Pavement By Means whereof the said John
Hornsby
< no role > Casually and by Misfortune and against the Will of him
the said Thomas Price< no role > did then and there receive divers Bruises
in and upon his Head and Body, of which said Mortal Bruises he
the said John Horns by form the said Eleventh day of September in
the Year aforesaid until the Fifteenth day of the same Month and
Year at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the
Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did
live, on which said fifteenth day of Septemebr he the said John
Hornsby
< no role > at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within
the Liberty and County aforesaid of the Mortal Bruises
aforesaid, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Hornsby< no role > in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid Casually and by Misfortune and against
the Will of him the said Thomas Price< no role > came to his death and
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Samuel Harrison< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on
the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. PrickardCoronor

Samuel HarisonForeman




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