City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1781 - 29th December 1781

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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 St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of February in the Twenty first 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
James Targett< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Christie
< no role > , Thomas Thomas< no role > , Thomas Bailey< no role > , Charles Davonsiere< no role >
James Burchall< no role > , John Marsh< no role > , Peter Grice< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , John
Gardner
< no role > , Stephen Brickwood< no role > , James Hoare< no role > and John Cross< 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 James Targett came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Targett on the
Fifteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid was driving
a certain Waggon loaded with Pollard and drawn by four
Horses in Brewers Yard in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said
James Targett then and there fell down and that both the
Near Wheels of the said Waggon Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune passed over the Body of him the said James
Targett, whereby the said James Targett then and there
received mortal Bruises in and upon his Body, of
which said Mortal Bruises he the said James Targett then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said James Targett Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid came to his death. and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Christie< 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 > [mark] Coroner
John Christie< no role > [mark] Foreman




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