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

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Image 493 of 6325th December 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the fifth Day of December 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 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
Ann Cunningham< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Robinson< no role > William Plashett< no role > George Hallam< no role > George Graham< no role > Nicholas Lake< no role > Thomas Mo [..] tt
Thomas Wilmot< no role > Timothy Sulivall< no role > John Holding< no role > Daniel Dempsey< no role > Daniel Maccartey< no role > Matthew Hayes< no role > and
Andrew Hughes< 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 Ann Cunningham< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Ann Cunningham< no role > on the third Day of
December in the Year aforesaid being in The Kings Highway in the Parish and County
aforesaid It so happened That a Waggon drawn by Three Horses which was then passing
along the said Highway then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune forced
the said Ann Cunningham< no role > to the Ground And the Off Wheel of the said Waggon did then and
there pass upon and over the Head of her the said Ann Cunningham< no role > By means whereof
she the said Ann Cunningham< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal Bruises in and upon
the said Head of her the said Ann Cunningham< no role > Of which said mortal Bruises she the said
Ann Cunningham< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say That the said Ann Cunningham< no role > manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune came to her Death And that the said Waggon was the Cause
of the Death of her the said Ann Cunningham< no role > and is of the Value of five Shillings and the
Property and in the Possession of Thomas Godsall< no role > of Wapping Coal Merchant or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Robinson< 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

Wm Robinson [mark] Foreman




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