City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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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 Third day of April in the twenty ninth
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 Humphey Cooper< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Pisley< no role > , John Hood< no role > , Thomas Grover< no role >
John Davies< no role > , John Hathaway< no role > , John Robson< no role > , William
Bowlisant
< no role > , Matthew Musgrave< no role > , James Robinson< no role > , James Fryer< no role > , Benjamin
West
< no role > and Lawrence Mitchell< 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 Humphrey Cooper< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say
That on the first day of April in the
Year aforesaid the said Humphrey Cooper< no role > was in a certain Stable situate
in Lambourn Mews in the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within
the Liberty and County aforesaid and that a Horse in the said Stable with his
hinder Feet Kiched at and against the said Humphrey Cooper by reason whereof
the said Humphrey Cooper< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune receive a mortal Bruise in and upon the right side of his Belly
near the Gwin of which said mortal Bruise he the said Humphrey Cooper< no role >
at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and
County aforesaid from the said first day of April in the year aforesaid until
the second day of the same Month did languish and languishing did live
On which said second day of April in the year aforesaid at the said Parish
Liberty and County he the said Humphrey Cooper< no role > of the mortal Bruise aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that
the said Humphrey Cooper in manner and by he 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 Willaim Pixley< 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. Pixley< no role > [mark] Foreman




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