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

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Image 394 of 47020th October 1780


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. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of October in the Twentieth Year
of the Regin 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
Alexander Robinson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Aaron
Loton
< no role > , Abraham Peck< no role > , John Rose< no role > , George Gally< no role > , John Dunford< no role > ,
James Rymer< no role > , William Mourn< no role > , William Allen< no role > , Mansel
Mann
< no role > , William Price< no role > , John Bevans< no role > and Henry Smith< 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 Alexander Robinson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Alexander Robinson< no role > on
the Eleventh day of October in the Year aforesaid was carefully
driving a Timber Carriage, loaded with Timber, and drawn by
three Horses from the End of Westminster Bridge into Bridge
Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, That the said Alexander Robinson< no role > in endeavouring
to stop the said Horses fell down in the said Street and that the
Near, Wheel of the said Carriage then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune passed over the Right Hip of
him the said Alexander Robinson< no role > , by Means whereof the said
Alexander Robinson< no role > did then and there receive divers
Bruises and Fractures in and upon the Right side, of which
said Bruises and Fractures he the said Alexander Robinson< no role >
did languish from the said Eleventh day of October aforesaid
until the Nineteenth day of the same Month and Year, and
thereof at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid he the said Alexander Robinson< no role > did die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Alexander Robinson< 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 above written

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




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