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

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


An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint 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 Thirtieth 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
George Mould< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Charles Dimmock< no role > Thomas Clark< no role > , Edward Pargeter< no role > Ralph
Peacock
< no role > , John Lloyd< no role > , John Keething< no role > , William Elsmoor< no role > , John
House
< no role > , Robert Haynes< no role > , William Gould< no role > , John Watson< no role >
and Robert Martin< 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 George Mould< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said George Mould< no role > a
Footman on the Twenty ninth day of March in the Year
aforesaid being riding behind a certain Coach drawn
by two Horses in the Road near unto Ranelagh in the
Parish Aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, and that the said George Mould< no role > then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down from
behind the said Coach unto the Ground close to the Off hinder
Wheel of the said Coach, and that the said Off hinder Wheel
imediately passed over the Body of the said George Mould< no role > ,
by Means whereof the said George Mould< no role > then and there
Accidentally, Casually and by Misfortune did receive mortal
Bruises in and upon his Body, of which said mortal Bruises
he the said George Mould< no role > then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said George, Mould in Manner aforesaid Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Charles Dimmock< 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 .
Charles Dimmock< no role > Foreman




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