London

Informations taken this 18th
June 1770 at the Parish of
Saint Sepulcher in the Word of
Farringdon without London on
an Inquisition taken on the
Body of Catharine Thorne< no role > an Infant
the late Daughter of Thomas Thorne< no role >
and Joanna< no role > his Wife Grig dead
in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
in the Parish of Saint Bartholomew
the Loss in the Ward aforesaid.

Samuel Grainger< no role > of Great Bath Street in the Parish
of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of
Middx Taylor on his Oath Saith that last Friday
Afternoon between five and six o'Clock two Children
both Girls were walking Hand in Hand in Great
Bath Sheet near the Window of Depts dwelling
House, and the two Children, the deced being one of
the two were on the same side of the way with
Deponents House, and there was a Young Woman on
the other side of the way with a Child in her Arms
and the Young woman who had the Child in her
Arms cryed out, and Dept. there upon Evolved up and
obrewed a Cart Passing a long sd Street towards the
Bull in the Pound, drawn by three Horses as Dept.
believes, but he did not see any Driver, says he
called out for somebody to stop the Horses, but
no body did stop them, and Dept. mode an Attempt
but before he could the off wheel of the Cart
threw the deced down to the Ground and passed over her Bach
and Head, and somebody whom Dept: cannot recollect
took the deced out of the Channel, and put her
down on the dry Ground, and somebody else took
the deced up, and carried her into Mrs. Martin's
Shop the Corner of Bath Street, and in about
an hour Afterwards he saw the deced put into a
Coach to be conveyedintoto St. Bartholomew's Hospital
as he understood; and he heard the deced died in
about an hour after she was conveyed to the sd Hospital
Says that the Cart & Horses belonged to Mr. Ralph Smith< no role >
of the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the said
County Cow Keeper says that the Cart was going on at a very
Moderate Rate. says he has seen the Cloaths of the deced, and

Verily believesthatthem to be the same the deced had on at the time She was ran over
Sworn the 18th. day of June 1770 before me Tho: Beach< no role >
Coroner

Samuel Grainger< no role >

And this deponent Samuel Grainger further saith that he was present before the
Justice when John Woolley< no role > the person to whose care the cart & Horses were [..]
acknowledged that at the time the deced was Killed he was twenty Yards behind the
Cart.

Sworn the 18th. day of June 177o before me
Tho: Beach Corr.

Samuel Grainger< no role >