Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
[..] George [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the Second Day of [..] in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, 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
Job Watts< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Philip Smith< no role > , George Carter< no role > Daniel Goddard< no role > Richard Joyce< no role > Thomas Tipell Charles Bennet< no role > , George
Longland
< no role > William Jacks Robert Mills< no role > Thomas Sherwood< no role > , William Meyer William Mc Call< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William
Cooks, Thomas Layburn< no role > , and William Allen< 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 Job Watts< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Job Watts< no role > on the Twenty ninth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Three Years and an half.
oldor thereabouts and being in The Kings Highway in Cable Street in the Parish
and County aforesaid and a certain Coach drawn by Two Horses then passing along
the said Highway It so happened That accidentally casually and by Misfortune
the Near Horse in the said Coach did then and there force and beat the said Job Watts< no role > to the Ground
And the Near Fore Wheel of the said Coach Did then and there pass upon and over the Head
near to the Temple of him the said Job Watts< no role > By Means whereof he the said Job Watts< no role >
did then and there receive divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the said Head of him
the said Job Watts< no role > of which said Mortal Bruises he the said Job Watts< no role > then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Job Watts< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
Misfortune Came to his Death And That the said Near Horse and Near Fore Wheel
were the Cause of the Death of the said Job Watts< no role > And That the said Near Horse
is of the Price of Five Shillings And the said Near Fore wheel of the Value of Five
Shillings and are both the Property of John Kemp< no role > of White Horse Street in The Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid Brewer or of his assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Philip Smith< 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
Philip Smith< no role > [mark] Foreman




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