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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripplegate
without in London aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of January in the thirty seventh
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth
before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentelman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London
and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of James Bird< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of Josiah Harvey< no role > , Clement Poole< no role > , Joseph Reynolds< no role > , Charles Webb< no role > , John Hull< no role > ,
William Smith< no role > , John Hamilton< no role > , Robert Piercy< no role > Hodge, Thomas Kemble< no role > , Matthew Hillback< no role > ,
Thomas Powell< no role > , William Blake< no role > , & William Walbanke< 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 James Bird< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said James Bird< no role > on the twenty seventh day of January in
the year aforesaid being driving a certain waggon drawn by four horses from and out
of a certain yard there situate belonging to Felice Calvert< no role > and Company into a certain
street and King's common highway there called Whitecross street and the said James Bird< no role >
being between the said Waggon and the gateway of the said yard while the said
waggon was passing out of the said yard as aforesaid It so happened that the said
James Bird< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune was pressed between the Shaft of
the said Waggon and the Wall of the said gateway by means whereof the said James
Bird did then and there receive a mortal bruise in and upon his belly of which
said mortal bruise he the said James Bird< no role > did then and there instantly die and so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said James Bird< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and
not otherwise And that the shaft of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said James Bird< no role > and is of the value of one shilling and
the property of and in the possession ofSmith and Company of Islington in the
County of Middlesex In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said Josiah Harvey< 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.

Josiah Harvey< no role > [mark]