City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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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 Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
within the Liberty of Middlesex , the twenty fifth day of September in the twenty seventh
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 Gogin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Ralph Mills< no role > , Thomas Stevens< no role > , William Wood< no role > ,
William Sharp< no role > , John Pinkerton< no role > , Robert Hayden< no role > , Amos
Vials
< no role > , Thomas Mose< no role > , William Milbarn James Nichols< no role > ,
Richard Wrather< no role > . & John 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 James Gogin came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That on the twentieth day of September
in the Year aforesaid James Barns< no role > was driving a certain Cart
loaded with Hay and drown by one Horse out of the Hay Market
into a Yard belonging to the Cock Inn situate in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and that the said James Gogin
in crossing the End of the Gateway leading into the said Yard was found
down by the Shaft of the said Cart on the off side of the said Horse And
that the off Wheel of the said Cart then and then Accidentally casually
by misfortune passed over the Body of the said James Gogin so lying upon
the Ground as aforesaid whereby the said James Gogin Ribs of him
the said James Gogin of which said Mortal Fracture he the said
James Gogin from the twentieth day of September in the Year aforesaid
until the twenty second day of the same Month and Year at the said
Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said
twenty second day of September in the Year aforesaid at the said Parish
last mentioned He the said James Gogin of the mortal Fracture
aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said James Gogin in Manner & by the means
aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune did die

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Ralph Mills< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Ralph Mills< no role > Foreman




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