City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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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 House of John Transfield< no role > the Sign of the Triumphant Chariot in Piccadilly in the Parish
of St. 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 ninth day of June
in the thirty 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 Anthony Gell< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City
and Liberty, on View of the Body of Jacob Cox< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 Jacob Cox< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Jacob Cox on the seventh
day of June in the year aforesaid at the Parish
& in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in Down Street being driving
of a Brewer's Dray drawn by three Horses & then & there sitting on the Shafts of the said
Dray It so happened that accidentally casually & by Misfortune was then &
there thrown from the said Shafts to and against the Ground by means
where of the Wheel of the said Dray passed over the Body of the
Jacob Cox thereby then and there giving unto him the Jacob
Cox divers Mortal Wounds; of which said Mortal Wound
he the said Jacob Cox then and there instantly died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Jacob Cox in manner and by the
Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune
came to his Death & not otherwise
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }
[mark]

Thomas Pettis< no role > [mark]
Alexr. Henderson< no role > [mark]
George Cottenes< no role > [mark]
Joseph Nichols< no role > [mark]
[..] Willock [mark]

Mr Main [mark]
James Barnes< no role > [mark]
George Clarks< no role > [mark]
James Wise< no role > [mark]
James Todd< no role > [mark]
Thos Miller< no role > [mark]

Thomas Barr< no role > [mark]




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