City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Coroner

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King London that
is to say) at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the eleventh day of May in the thirty ninth year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Mary Holdwright< no role > now here
lying dead by the Oath of Blades Pallister< no role > James Secker< no role > Samuel Leonard< no role > William
Cranfield
< no role > James Craven< no role > John Brown< no role > Henry Tyler< no role > Edward Bliss< no role > Thomas Panton< no role >
William Castle< no role > Evan Lloyd< no role > John Bush< no role > John Edwards< no role > Isaac Ward< no role > Joseph Roper< no role > and
Edward Wright Whitcomb< 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 Mary Holdwright< no role > came to her death
say upon their Oath that the said Mary Holdwright< no role > on the eighth day of May in the
year aforesaid being in a certain publick street called Wood street situate in the
Parish of Saint Michael Wood street in the Ward of Cripplegate within in London
aforesaid and a certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown being
driving a certain Cart drawn by one horse along and through the said street It so happened
that the said Cart accidentally casually and by misfortune ran against the said Mary Holdwright< no role >
and the said Mary Holdwright< no role > were thereby forced to the ground and stone pavement there
and the off wheel of the said Cart did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune
go upon and pass over the legs of her the said Mary Holdwright< no role > by means whereof the said
Mary Holdwright< no role > did then and there receive one mortal bruise and fracture in and upon
her night leg of which said Mortal bruise and fracture she the said Mary Holdwright< no role > as
well at the said Parish of Saint Michael Wood street in the Ward of Cripplegate within
as also at the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid from the said eighth day of May in the year aforesaid until the tenth
day of the same month of May in the same year did languish and languishing did live
and at the Parish last aforesaid in the Ward last aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Mary
Holdwright on the day and year last aforesaid of the said mortal bruise and fracture
did dieAnd so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Mary Holdwritght< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune came to her death and not otherwise and that the off wheel of the said
Cart was moving to the death of the said Mary Holdwright< no role > and is of the value of twenty
shillings and the property and in the possession ofDancer of new Inn yard in
the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex .
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Blades Pallister< 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 settheir hands and seals the day year and place
frist above written.

Blades Pallister [mark]




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