London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
on the twenty first day of June in the thirty sixth 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 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 Bunn< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of Thomas Panton< no role > John Coles< no role > William Phillips< no role > Thomas Snape< no role > Gerrard Willott< no role >
John Pendrick< no role > James Lucas< no role > Thomas Lucas< no role > Thomas Brown< no role > Thomas Jones< no role > Thomas Whitaker< no role >
Thomas Frith< no role > William Russell< no role > William Eady< no role > James Bird< no role > Thomas Whitford< no role > Joseph Reynolds< no role >
William Castle< no role > Richard Crossley< no role > and Nicholas Carter< 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 Bunn< no role > came
to his death say upon their oath that on the eighteenth day of June in the year aforesaid
a certain Cart drawn by three houses being standing near a certain gateway leading into a
certain yard situate in Whitecross street in the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in
the Ward of Cripplegate without in London aforesaid and the said Thomas Bunn< no role > a blind man being feeling his
way there with a certain stick which he had and held in his right hand It so happened
that the said Thomas Bunn< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune struck the shaft horse
of the said Cart by means whereof the said horses so drawing the said Cart did pass
from and out of the said street up the said gateway and into the said yard and the near
wheel of the said Cart did then and there accidentally force the said Thomas Bunn< no role > to and
against the ground and stone pavement there and did go upon and pass over the left leg
body and head of him the said Thomas Bunn< no role > and did then and there give to him the said Thomas Bunn< no role >
divers mortal bruises in and upon the left leg body and head of him the said Thomas Bunn< no role > of which
said mortal bruises he the said Thomas Bunn< no role > as well at the said parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate
in the ward of Cripplegate without in London aforesaid as also at the abovementioned parish of Saint
Bartholomew the less in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live and on the same day and year last aforesaidat London aforesaidat the
parish and ward last aforesaid at London aforesaid the said Thomas Bunn< no role > of the said Mortal
bruises did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Thomas Bunn< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune came to his death and not otherwise. and that the near wheel of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said Thomas Bunn< no role > and is of the value of one dwelling and the property of a certain person to the Jurors aforesaid unknown In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Thomas Pantin< 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 abovewritten.

Tho. Pantin [mark] Foreman