City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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Image 689 of 77817th November 1790


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 Seventeenth day of November in the thirty first
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 Adam Wein< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Oakes< no role > , Thomas Mose< no role > , Joseph Higgs< no role > , William
Cullen
< no role > , William Conyers< no role > , John Collingwood< no role > , Alexander Henderson< no role >
William Warren< no role > , John Street< no role > , John Cheriton< no role > , William Peartree< no role >
and Charles Dyson< 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 Adam Wein came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That on the Eleventh day of November in the
Year aforesaid the said Adam Wein was driving a certain Hackney, Coach in the
Public Road or Kings High way at Knightsbridge , in the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the Horses drawing
the said Coach took fright, and that the said Hackney Coach was overturned in the said
High way, by means whereof the said Adamwein then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune received a Mortal Fracture in his Collar bone on the Right side and
Bruises in his Body of which said mortal Fracture and Bruises he the said Adam Wein
from the said Eleventh day of November in the Year aforesaid until the Fourteenth day of
the same Month and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did
languish and languishing did live on which said Fourteenth day of November in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid he the said Adam Wein of
the Mortal Fracture and Bruises aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Adam Wein 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 Richard Oakes< no role > Foreman of the said 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
Richd Oakes
Foreman} [mark]




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