City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1783 - 30th December 1783

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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. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of December in the twenty fourth
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Fulvey Buggs< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Sutherland< no role > , Joseph Hathaway< no role > , Joseph
Caron
< no role > , Jacob Pocock< no role > , Samuel Ray< no role > , Stephen Haynes< no role > , Daniel
Charman
< no role > , John Browne< no role > , George Fry< no role > , William Woods< no role >
John White< no role > and Charles Howe< 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 Fulvey Buggs came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Fulvey Buggs a Laborer
on the Eleventh day of November in the Year aforesaid being being loading
a Cart with Wood for the Baker in the Yard of John Mitchell< no role >
situate on Mill Bank in the Parish of St. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there
standing upon a Ladder by the side of the said Cart, It so
happened that the said Fulvey Buggs Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune fell down off and from the top of the said Ladder
unto and upon the Stone Pavement in the said Yard, and thereby
then and there received one mortal Contusion in and upon the
rightside of the Head of him the said Fulvey Buggs of which said
Contusion he the said Fulvey Buggs at the said Parish of St. John
the Evangelist and also at the said Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty and County aforesaid from the said Eleventh day of
November in the Year aforesaid until the Seventh day of
December in the same Year did languish and langushing
did live, on which said Seventh day of December at the said
Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid
he the said Fulvey Buggs of the mortal Contusion aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Fulvey Buggs in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said
John Sutherland< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his 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

Jno Sutherland [mark] Foreman




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