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

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Image 501 of 101922nd July 1789


London


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Coroner [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, as the Parish of
Saint Swithin London Stone in the Ward of Walbrook in London aforesaid on the twenty second day of July 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 & 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 Elizabeth Cole< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Porter< no role > John Williams< no role > Samuel Flow George
Grellis Daniel Ward< no role > John Taylor< no role > Edward Salter< no role > Thomas Parker< no role > James Tremaine< no role > Robert Bays< no role > Robert Wright< no role > James Hardy< no role > and
Thomas Wall< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our
said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Elizabeth Cole< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said
Elizabeth Cole< no role > on the seventeenth day of July in the twenty ninth year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being
in a certain Public Street and common highway their called Upper Thomas Street and being then and there going and passing along and
through the said Public Street and common highway aforesaid is so happened that as a certain purpose whose name to the Jurors aforesaid was
up unknown was driving a certain Cart drawn by two Horses along and through the said public Street and common highway the near Wheel of the
said Cart did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and passover and against the left arm of the said Elizabeth Cole< no role >
by means whereof she the said Elizabeth Cole< no role > did then and there receive one mortal wound and fracture in and upon her said left arm
Of which said mortal wound and fracture she said Elizabeth Cole< no role > from the said seventeenth day of July in the year aforesaid until the
twentieth day of the said month of July in the same year at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing
did live On which said twentieth day of July in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Elizabeth
Cole of the said mortal Wound and fracture did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Cole< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune and accidentally killed And that the said near Wheel of the said Cart was moving
to the death of the said Elizabeth and is of the value of ten Shillings and the property and in the possession of Watford of Goswell Street
in the county of Middlsex Brewer In Witnesses where of as well the said Coroner as the said John Porter< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of
himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to their Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year and place first above written

Jno. Porter< no role > [mark]




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