City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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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 ,
in the County of Middlesex , the first day of September in the twenty eighth
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 George Gilder< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Tryer< no role > , John Ray< no role > , John Stalker< no role > , Peter Fozard< no role >
John James< no role > , James Blakie< no role > , John Large< no role > , Richard
Denew
< no role > , Richard Naile< no role > , Alexander Henderson< no role > , Daniel Bunning< no role >
John Pitters and Matthew Burnett< 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 George Gilder came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the twenty eighth day of August
in the year aforesaid the said George Gilder was riding in a Cart loaded with Dung at
Hammersmith in the said County of Middlesex , and then and
there throwing some Empty Baskets out of the said Cart, It so
happened that the said George Gilder Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell off and from the said Cart unto the Ground and
thereby then and there did receive one mortal Fracture in and
upon his Head, of which said mortal Fracture the said
George Gilder from the said twenty eighth day of August in the
year aforesaid, until the thirtieth 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 live on which
said thirtieth day of August in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
last mentioned, he the said George Gilder of the mortal Fracture
aforesaid did die, and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said George Gilder in manner and
by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by misfortune
came to his Death and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said
William Fryer< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Wm: Fryer< no role > [mark] Foreman




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