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

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Image 507 of 63230th December 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth 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
William Warren< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James White< no role > John Tibbetts< no role > Richard Herne< no role > John Tubby< no role > Henry-Murray< no role > James Osmond< no role > William [..] Robert< no role >
Bryant John Cox< no role > John Bodingham< no role > Joseph Chant< no role > George King< no role > Thomas Thomason< no role > William Hubbard< no role >
Francis Nash< no role > and Valentine Lee< 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 William Warren< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Warren< no role > on the Twenty ninth
Day of December in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Nine Years or
thereabouts And being at Play with other Boys in a Horse Path at a certain Horse
Mill which was then Working at the House of Charles Hundley< no role > situate in Red
Lyon Market in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the wooden
Yoke of the said Mill then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune hit the
said William Warren< no role > on the Head By Means whereof he the said William Warren< no role > then
and thereaccidentally casually andreceived One, mortal Fracture in and upon the
Head of him the said William Warren< no role > Of which said Mortal Fracture he the said
William Warren< no role > then and there instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William Warren< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James White< 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

Jas. White [mark] Foreman




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