MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}
AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet of
Poplar and Blackwall
in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex
, the twenty ninth 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
Mary Bond< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Higgens< no role >
Samuel Ewen< no role >
George Atkins< no role >
Thomas Willis< no role >
James Revell
James Madan< no role >
Obadiah Woodcock< no role >
Samuel Ruston< no role >
Joseph Bishop< no role >
Henry Lawman< no role >
John Warman< no role >
William Randall< no role >
and
William English< no role >
goods 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
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came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
Mary Boyd< no role >
on the Twenty seventh Day
of December in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into a
Ditch of Water and Ice in Harrow Lane
in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid By Means whereof and of the Inclemoney of the Weather she the said
Mary Boyd< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Mary Boyd< no role >
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid came to her Death
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Higgins< 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
Joseph Higgins< no role >
[mark] Foreman