City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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10th January 1780 - 30th December 1780

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Image 99 of 47014th March 1780


City and Liberty
of Westmister
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


An Inquitition 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 Fourteenth day of March in the Twentieth 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 Langford< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Aaron Loton< no role > ,
William Dawes< no role > Abraham Peck< no role > , William Doe< no role > , Nathaniel Burch< no role > , Hugh
Kennedy
< no role > , Samuel Ray< no role > , Donald Mc. Intosh< no role > , Thomas Holloway< no role > Daniel Mann< no role > ,
William Allen< no role > and Wm Sylvanne Price< 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 Langford< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Langford< no role > on the
Tenth day of March in the Year aforesaid being driving a certain
Cart loaded with Potatoes and drawn by two Horses in the Kings
High way near Westminster Bridge in the Parish of St. Mary
Lambeth in the County of Surry, That a Man unknown was then
slowly Riding a certain Horse in the said Road, and that in passing
by the said Thomas Langford< no role > , he the said Thomas Langford< no role > was foreced
down by the said Horse unto the Ground, and that the near Wheel
of the said Cart then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
passed over the left High of the said Thomas Langford< no role > , by Means
whereof the said Thomas Langford< no role > then and there received one mortal
Fracture in and upon his left High, of which said mortal Fracture
he the said Thomas Langford< no role > from the said Tenth day of March in
the Year aforesaid until the thirteenth 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 Thirteenth day of March in the year aforesaid at the said Parish
of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid he the said Thomas
Langford
< no role > of the mortal Fracture aforesaid did dye. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Thomas Langford< 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 Aaron Loton< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Aaron Laton
Foreman}




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