City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
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An Inquisition indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square , in the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter at Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of May
in the Second 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 Prickard< no role > ,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of George Dyer< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Felix Giardini< no role > , William Gibson< no role > . William Barton< no role > , Robert Ireland< no role >
William Thomas< no role > , Samuel Glegg< no role > , James Smith< no role > , George Barnett< no role > Richard Tillson< no role > , John North< no role >
William Stone< no role > , John Crumblehorn< no role > , John Russell< no role > George Skeate< no role > and William Hutchinson< no role > , good and lawful Men of
the said Liberty, 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 George Dyer< no role > came to his death
Do upon their Oath say, That the said George Dyer< no role > on the tenth day of May in the Year aforesaid was riding
speedily on a Bay Horse, the Property of a certain Person to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, in a certain Ring in Hyde [..]
Park situate in the Parish and Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, And that it so happened that the said Horse
did then and there run away with the said George Dyer< no role > , Whereupon the said George Dyer< no role > did then and there quit [..]
Stirups in order to Disengage himself from the said Horse so running away with him the said George Dyer< no role > , and
the said George Dyer< no role > was then and there by the Force and Violence of the Motion of the said Horse thrown upon his Neck
and the said Horse so continuing his speed did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune throw the said
George Dyer< no role > from his Neck to the Ground with great Violence upon his Head, by reason whereof he the said George Dyer< no role > dis [..]
their and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive a Mortal Bruise on the right side of the Head hear the eight [..]
Ear of which he languished until the Eleventh day of May in the Year aforesaid, and then dyed of the said Bruise at
St. George's Hospital in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the Liberty and County aforesaid; And that the said Horse
was moving to the Death of the said George Dyer< no role > and is the Property of a Person to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Felix Giardini< no role > Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the
rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to his Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Felice Giardini< no role > Forman




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