City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , to Wit}

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign
Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster within
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth day of August in the Fifth 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 for the before Thomas
Prickard
< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on view of the Body of Charles Hollier< no role > an Infant then and there lying Dead, upon
the Oath of John Niblett< no role > , Matthew Walker< no role > , Abraham Nayler< no role > , William Crankan< no role > , Edward Pagett< no role > , John Morris< no role > ,
William Hepburn< no role > , Richard Small< no role > , Jabus Price< no role > , Richard Hollis< no role > , George Young< no role > , William Spinney< no role > , and John Moody< no role > ,
good and lawfull men of the said Liberty duly chosen 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 Hollier< no role > Came to hisDeath, do upon their Oath
say, That the said Charles Hollier on the Twenty seventh day of August in the Year aforesaid, being
riding in and upon a certain Cart, leaden with Wood Poles and drawn by two Horses, in a certain Street
called Peter Street in the Parish of St. John the Evangelist within the City Liberty and County aforesaid,
And that the said Charles Hollier by a sudden jolt of the said Cart incrossing the Kennel, did then
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fall out of the said Cart to the Ground near unto the
Off Wheel of the said bart, by reason where of the said off wheel of the said bart did then and there go upon
and pass over both the Legs of him the said Charles Hollier, by Means where of the said Charles Hollier< no role >
did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive divers mortal Wounds and Bruises in
and upon both his said Legs; of which said mortal Wounds and mortal Bruises he the said Charles Hollier< no role > from
the said Twenty seventh day of August in the year aforesaid until the Twenty eighth day of the same Month and
Year, at the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live, on which and Twenty eighth day of August in the Year aforesaid he the said Charles Hollier
at the said Hospital, of the mortal Wounds and mortal Bruises aforesaid, did die, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Charles Hollier in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by misfortune
came to his Death and not otherwise. And that the said Off Wheel of the said Cart, so drown as aforesaid was moving to the
Death of the said Charles Hollier, and is of the Value of five Shillings, and the Property and in the Possession of Henry Murless< no role >
of the said Parish of St. John the Evangelist Carman, or of his Assigns In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
John Niblett 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 Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

John NiblettForeman




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