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

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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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of 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 Tilley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Hugh
Morris
< no role > , Michael Castleden< no role > , John Beales< no role > , William Ambler< no role > John Clark< no role >
James Bean< no role > John Rogers< no role > , Lewis Hamilton< no role > , Jacob Knight< no role > , Elias Glayer< no role > ,
Nicodemus Haynes< no role > and John Shuter< 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 Tilley< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Tilley< no role > a
Footman on the Nineteenth day of September in the Year
aforesaid being Riding upon the Footboard behind a certain
Chariot in Parliament Street in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that it
so happened that the said John Tilley< no role > , who was in Liquor,
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell down off and from the Footboard of the said Chariot unto and
upon the Pavement in the said Street, and there by die then
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
receive one Mortal Bruise in and upon his Body, of which said mortal Bruise
he the said John Tilley< no role > then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That
the said John Tilley< 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 Hugh Morris< 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. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Hugh Morris< no role > Foreman




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