City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

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George Walls< no role > Groom to the Right Horible
George Earl< no role > of Moreton on his Oath saith
That on the Twelfth day of this Instant
Thomas Noble< no role > a Lad of the Age of fourteen
Years. Helper to this Dept. in the Stables
went into Hyde Park Riding upon one
Horse and loading another, That in
about half an hour a Boy from Grosvenor
Gate came to Dept. and informed Dept. that
the Horses were looce in Hyde Park and he
did not know whether the Boy was deced or
alive, upon which Dept. went into the
park and found the Deced lying on the
Ground in able to speak or move himself
and Dept. was informed that a Man was
Galloping by he Deced in the Park, that
the Horsie which the Deced was leading
took fright and that the Deced was pulled
down, And Dept. says that the Deced had
reced a Contusion on the right side of
his Head, Says that the Deced, was carried
home to Lady Moreton House in Park
Street in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square where he was attended by an
[..] and Surgeon but Deced
[..] Yesterday, and Dept. thinks that
the Deced's died in consequence of the fall
from the Horce abovementioned and that the
Horses were the Property of Lord Moreton

George Wells< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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