MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House
of William Humphreys< no role > Known by the Sign of the Bunch of Grapes in Whites Yard in the Parish of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise White Chapel in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty second Day of April 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 to forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role > Esquire
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Richard Barnes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Hall< no role > , Joshua Parish< no role > , Thomas Grainger< no role > William Press James Godsell the Younger, James Jolly< no role > William Hadgeley< no role >
James Burstin< no role > , William Humphreys< no role > , George Dane< no role > Edward Wale< no role > , William Howard< no role > Smith, James Godsell the Elder and John Clarke< 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 Richard Barnes< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Richard Barnes< no role > on the Twenty first Day of April in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the County aforesaid being employed to Unload from a Certain Cart Two Casks filled with Horse hair then being in the said Cart It
so happened that in Striking and Unloading of the said two Casks one of the said Casks so filled as aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
Rolled forceably out of the said Cart And the said Richard Barnes< no role > Instantly Jumping out of the said Cart and over the said Cask in Order to Present
Certain Persons Standing near to the same from being hart thereby Kipped to the Ground And the said Cask forceably Rolling to Upon and
Over the Head and Body of the said Richard Barnes< no role > so being upon the Ground as aforesaid by Means whereof he the said Richard Barnes< no role >
then and there Received one Mortal Wound and fracture of the Skull of him the said Richard Barnes< no role > of which said Mortal Wound and Fracture he the said
Richard Barnes< no role > then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard
Barnes in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death and not Otherwise And
that the said Cask so filled with hair as aforesaid was the Cause of the Death of the said Richard Barnes< no role > and is of the Value of Two
Shillings and Six Pence and the Property and in the Possession of David Samuel< no role > of the Tenter Goodmans Fields in the Parish and
County aforesaid Merchant or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Hill< 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 andYear and place first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

James Hall< no role > [mark] Foreman