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

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Image 68 of 71214th December 1781


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AN Inquisition indented taken [..] the King at the Parish of Saint Pancras
in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth 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
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Barnaby Darley< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Smart< no role > William
Moyan William Morrell John Joyce< no role > John Clayton< no role > Patrick Knowland< no role >
William Alldridge< no role > This name instance is in set 20180. Peter Tomkins< no role > William Laws< no role > William White< no role > John
Hedgis Charles Bruise< no role > and Francis Horton< 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 Barnaby Darley< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Barnaby
Darly on the Twelfth Day of December in the Year aforesaid being Twing
a Two Sheel Chaise drawn by One Horse along The Kings Highway in the
Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the said Chaise then
and there accidentally casually And by Misfortune Overturned And the said
Barnaby Darley< no role > was then and there thrown thereout to and upon the Ground
By Means whereof he the said Barnaby Darly< no role > then and there received divers
Mortal Bruises in and upon the Body of him the said Barnaby Darley< no role > of
which said Mortal Bruises he the said Barnaby Darly< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Barnaby Darley< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death And That the said Horse and
Chaise were the Cause of the Death of the said Barnby Darley< no role > and are the
Property of same Person a Persons to the said Jurors unknown

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as for said John Smart< 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.

Jno. Smart< no role > [mark] Foreman




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