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

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish of Saint
Bartholomew the Great in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the fourth day of august 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
Parish 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 Thomas Taylor< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Lockwood< no role > Nathaniel Streat< no role > Thomas Hannam< no role >
Daniel Seals John Bush< no role > Richard Crossgrove< no role > John Polingue William Bumstead< no role > Richard Hyde< no role > Adino Boughton< no role > John Harton< no role >
Joseph Roper< no role > and Richard Morrison< 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 Thomas Taylor< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath the [..] a certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is yet unknown on the first
day of August in the year aforesaid at the parish of Saint Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon within in London aforesaid
being driving a certain Coach drawn by three Horses along and through a certain open and public place and common highway
there called Blackfriars Bridge and the said Thomas Taylor< no role > being then and there going and passing along and over the said
open and public place and common highway it so happened that the said Thomas Taylor< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell to and upon the Ground there and that the said Thomas Taylor< no role > so then and there lying on the Ground the now [..]
kind wheel of the said Coach did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and passover the back and
body of him the said Thomas Taylor< no role > By means whereof he the said Thomas Taylor< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal wounds
and bruises in and upon his and back and body Of which said mortal wounds and bruises he the said Thomas Taylor< no role > from the said first
day of August in the year aforesaid until the third day of august int he same year as well as the Parish last aforesaid in the ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid as also as the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said third day of august in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward
last aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Thomas Taylor< no role > of the said mortal wounds and bruices did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Taylor< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed
And that the said kind wheel of the said Coach was moving to the death of the said Thomas Taylor< no role > and is of the Value of five Shillings and
the property and in the possession Of a certain or certain persons whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is or are as yet unknown In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Lockwood< 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

Thos. Lockwood< no role > [mark]




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