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

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Image 278 of 6322nd January 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the second Day of January in the twenty third 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, 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 Wyatt< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Clerk< no role > , John Harris< no role > Robert Whitehead< no role > George Dixon< no role > John Francis< no role > Samuel
Blower Thomas Paulin< no role > David King< no role > Christopher Hatfield< no role > George Nubill< no role >
William Wand< no role > and George Twizel< 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 Thomas Wyatt< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Wyatt< no role > the First Day of
January in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Fourteen Years or
thereabouts And being in a Crane which was then working to sling Beer from the
Wharf of John Bryant< no role > situate in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened
That the Wheel of the said Crane then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
Catch'd hold of the said Thomas Wyatt< no role > and then and there Jamb'd the said Thomas
Wyatt against a Wooden Beam which lay across the Crane House Where the said Crane
was Working as aforesaid By Means whereof he the said Thomas Wyatt< no role > then and there received
divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head, Neck and Arm [..] him the said Thomas
[..] said Mortal Bruises he the said [..] Wyatt then and there
Died And [..] Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said
Thomas Wyatt< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Clerk< 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

John Clerk< no role > [mark] Foreman




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