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

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Image 518 of 6327th February 1786


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary Whitechapell in the County of
Middlesex , the seventh Day of February 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
Charles Holmen< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Smith< no role > John Rogers< no role > John Tomkins< no role > Samuel Arundel< no role > , William Stollard< no role > Thomas Jegget< no role >
Edward Barrett< no role > Henry Stephens< no role > William Clarke< no role > Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176. William Howard< no role > Smith and
Joseph Flamstone< 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 Charles Holmer< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Charles Holmer< no role > on the second Day of February
in the Year aforesaid being driving a Cart with Two Horses along The Kings Highway in
the Minories in the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the City of London It so happened
That he the said Charles Holmer< no role > then and there accidentally casuallu and by Misfortune fell to
the Ground and the Near Wheel of the said Cart then and there forced the said Charles Holmer< no role >
along the Pavement in the Carriage Way for the Space of Ten Yard By Means whereof he the
said Charles Holmer< no role > then and there received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head and
Body of him the said Charles Holmer< no role > Of which said Mortal Bruises he the said Charles
Holmer from the said second Day of February in the year aforesaid untill the third Day of
the same Month in the same Year at the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate aforesaid and
also at the said Parish of Saint Mary Whitechapell to wit in the London Hospital there
situate did Languish and Languishing did live On which said third Day of February in
the Year aforesaid he the said Charles Holmer< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid of the Mortal Bruises
aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
Charles Holmer< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune
came to his Death And that the said Near Wheel was the Cause of the Death of the said Charles
Holmer and is of the Value of five Shillings and the Property and in the Possession of John
Tunbridge of the Parish of Saint John Wapping in the said County Cannan or of his Assigns

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




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