Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 66 of 71211th December 1781


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AN Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell
in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh Day of December in the 22d. 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, Etc, before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a Man unknown
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Thomas Isaac< no role >
Alexander Christall< no role > Phillip Priston< no role > William Jones< no role > James Watson< no role >
George Staples< no role > Charles Sharpe< no role > Lewis Williams< no role > Matthew Rokers< no role >
John Glover< no role > Matthew Turber< no role > and William Baker< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Man unknown
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown
on the Ninth Day of December in the Year aforesaid being in the Kings Highway
in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That a certain Coach passing along
the said Highway then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune beat
the said Man unknown to the Ground And did then and there pass upon and
over the Body of him the said Man unknown By Means whereof he the said
Man unknown did then and there receive divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the
Body of him the said Man unknown Of which said Mortal Bruises he the
said Man unknown then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Man unknown in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Isaac< 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 and Year first abovementioned

E:Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Thos Isaac [mark] Foreman




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