London
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]