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

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Image 547 of 71224th June 1786


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House
of William Salter< no role > known by the Sign of the Ship in the Hamlet of Hammersmith in the Parish of Fulham in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fourth Day of June in the Twenty Sixth 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 th 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
Robert Hatch< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Anthony Newman< no role > Richard Chaston< no role > John Gilbert< no role > , John Turner< no role > , Bees Lloyd< no role > , Thomas Noyse< no role > , Francis Bert< no role > , Edward Marshall< no role >
Abraham Chettle< no role > John Caplin< no role > Lawrence Surbutt< no role > , John Joyle George Gale< no role > Lewis Cousens< no role > Phillip Davis< no role >
Samuel Lessett< no role > Thomas Squires< no role > Thomas Levennore< no role > Richard Kenton< no role > William Salter< no role > and John Cooper< no role >
good and lawful Men 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 Robert Hatch< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Hatch< no role > on the Twenty first day of June in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Riding upon the Top of a Certain Cart drawn by Three
Horses and loaded with Green Clover along and over a Certain common Highway, upon and leading over
a Certain Common called Acton Common it so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune he the
said Robert Hatch< no role > did then and there fall form the said Cart to the Ground by means whereof he the said Robert
Hatch did the and there receive one Mortall Bruise in the Spine of the Back of him the said Robert Hatch< no role >
of which said Mortal Bruise he the said Robert Hatch< no role > then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Robert Hatch< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Anthony Newman< 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 and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Anthony Newman< no role > [mark]




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