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

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Image 527 of 71219th June 1786


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An Inquisition indented taken taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Dwelling House of James Gayter< no role >
known by the Sign of the White Hart in the Parish of Hampton in the County of Middlesex on Monday
the Nineteenth Day of Junein the Twenty SixthYear 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 and so forth before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County on View of the Body of Thomas Richardson< no role >
then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of Thomas Walker< no role > Thomas Riley< no role > , Robert Low< no role > . Henry Pike< no role > Mathew
Bradley
< no role > . Thomas Bennett< no role > , Timothy Costlow< no role > , John Blundell< no role > , James Gaytor< no role > . John Cope< no role > , Samuel
Sacthey John Stenton, William Richardson< no role > , James Gillett< no role > , James Millnier. John Howgait< no role >
and John Pallenden< no role >

good and lawfull of the said County duly chosen and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said
Lord the King when how and by what means the said Thomas Richardson< no role > came to
his Death do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Richardson< no role > one Thomas Tagg< no role > and one Thomas
Freeland being Infants under the Age of Twenty one Years on the Sixteenth day of June in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid were playing together and the said Thomas
Tagg running after the said Thomas Richardson< no role > and Thomas Freeland< no role > hethe said Thomas Tagg< no role >
flung a Stone at the said Thomas Freeland< no role > and it so happened that the said Stone so flung by
the said Thomas Tagg< no role > at the said Thomas Freeland accidentally casually and by Misfortune against
the will of the said Thomas Tagg< no role > his the said Thomas Richardson< no role > on the left Side of his Head just above
his Ear thereby giving to his the said Thomas Richardson< no role > a Mortal Concussion on the Brain of him the said Thomas
Richardson of which Mortal Concussion he the said Thomas Richardson< no role > from she said Sixteenth day of
June in the year aforesaid untill the Seventeenth day of the same month in the same Year at the
Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did live on which said
Seventeenth day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid of the mortal
Concussion aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the
said Thomas Richardson< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by Misfortune and against the Will of him the said Thomas Tagg< no role > and Come to his Death and not
otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Walker< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors on the Behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their presence have
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day Year and place first above Written.

Thos. Walker< no role > [mark]




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