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

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the king at [..] of Norwood
in the County of Middlesex , the First Day of June 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 Coroner s of Our said Lord
KING, for the said, County, on view of the body of William Walker< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Henry Barnes< no role >
Daniel Weedon< no role > Joseph Simons< no role > Solomon Baxter< no role > John Day< no role > John
Calton Richard< no role > Harris Austin< no role > July James Whiteley Thomas
Golder John Roun Thomas Ward< no role > Richard West< no role > and John Dean< 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 William Walker< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William
Walker on the Twenty Ninth Day of December in the Year aforesaid
being in the King Highway in the Parish and County aforesaid And a
a Stain, Waggon called The Gloucester Carrier then passing along the said
Highway. It so happened That the said Waggon did then and there
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune beat the said William Walker< no role >
to the Ground And the Fore off wheel thereof Did then and there pass upon
and Oder the Body of him the said William Walker< no role > By Means whereof he
the said William Walker< no role > did then and there receive diver Mortal Bruises
of which said Mortal Bruises he the said William Walker< no role > then and
there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death
and That the said Fore off Wheel was the causes of the Death of the said William
Walker And is of the value of Five shillings And the Property and in
the Possession of Samuel Manning< no role > of Gloucester Carrier or of his Assign

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Henry Barnes< 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.

Henry Barnes< no role > [mark] Foreman




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