City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

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Image 239 of 101919th March 1789


London
and
Southwark


T Shelton Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at [..] the parish of
Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the nineteenth day of March in the twenty ninth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the
Faith Etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view
of the body of Joseph William< no role > This name instance is in set 1534. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . now here lying dead by the oath of James Gilmour< no role > , John Davidson< no role > , Roger Lewis< no role > , William Cotton< no role >
Richard Lewis< no role > , George Wilkinson< no role > , Thomas Ellis< no role > , John Ross< no role > , Samuel Stevens< no role > , Raham Rupe, John Crawford< no role > , Robert Brown< no role >
and James Hargraves< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark aforesiad in the said County of Surrey were being
Now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Joseph
Wilshire came to his death say upon their oath that certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown on the
sixteenth day of March in she year aforesaid being driving a certain Cart drawn by two horses along and through a certain public
Street and common highway called upper Thomas Street in the City of Long is so happened that as the said Joseph Willshire< no role >
was then and there going and passing along and through the said Public Stree and common highway aforesaid he the said
Joseph Willshire accidentally causally and by misfortune fell to and against the Ground then And that the said Joseph Willshire< no role >
then and there on the ground lying it so happened that one of the wheels of the said cart did then and were accidentally casually
and by misfortune go upon and pass over the Body of him the said Joseph Willshire< no role > By means whereof he the said Joseph Willshire< no role >
did then and there receive divers mortal wounds and bruises in and upon the head face back sides arms and legs of him the said Joseph
Willshire of which said mortal wounds and bruises he the said Joseph Willshire< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Joseph Willishire< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally
killed And that one of the wheels of the said cart was moving to the death of the said Joseph Willshire< no role > and is of the value of five Shillings
and the property and in the possession of one Richard Cleaver< no role > In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James Gilmour< no role >
the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 first above written.

Jas. Gilmour [mark] Foreman




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