City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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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 Knight bridge in the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Pater Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Seventh day of July in the twenty fifth
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 City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Mary Price< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Shephard< no role > , William Westby< no role > , Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176.
George Buttersworth< no role > , James Silvester< no role > , Joseph Hughes< no role > , Richard
Huntley
< no role > , John Vanghan< no role > , Boucher Bell< no role > William Williams< no role > , Thomas
Thomson
< no role > ,and Joseph Cox< 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 Mary Price< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Price< no role > on the twenty
sixth say of July in the Year aforesaid being with her Husband in a
single Horse Chaise in the Kings Highway near Kensington Gore
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid and
that the said Husband unskilfully drove the said Chaise Horse
between a Cart loaded with Bricks, and another Cart loaded with
Dung drawn in the said Highway, whereby the said Road
near the Off wheel of the said Dung cart, which said Off Wheel of the
said Dung Cart, instanly passed upon and over the Head of the said
Mary Price< no role > ; by Means whereof the said Mary Price< no role > then and those
accidentally casually and Misfortune received Mortal fracture
in and upon the right side of the Head of her the said mary Price< no role > , of
which said Mortal Fracture She the said Mary Price< no role > then and
there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Mary Price< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
Accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to her Death and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
William Sheppard< 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 above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

W Sheppard [mark] Foreman




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