City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of July in the Fourteenth 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 > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Samuel Golding< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Greenway
< no role > , John Price< no role > , Richard Bunney< no role > , Benjamin Roades< no role > , Robert Maycock< no role > , Thomas
Leigh
< no role > , Thomas Blackmore< no role > , Henry Pitkin< no role > , James Williamson< no role > , Thomas Barlow< no role > , William
Franklin
< no role > , Harry Loader< no role > and Edward Padgett< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Samuel Golding< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Samuel Golding< no role > came to
on the Fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid, being in the Yard
of Henry Savory< no role > Coal Merchant, situate upon Mill Bank in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that Charles
Gittins
< no role > a Carter being then carefully driving a certain Empty Cart
drawn by one Horse in the said Yard, and that in turning the said
Cart about It so happened that the Tail of the said Cart Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune struck against the Right side of the said
Samuel Golding< no role > , by M [..] whereof the Ribs of the said Samuel
Golding
< no role > on the Right s [..] ere then and there broken, and his Body
Bruised, of which said F [..] ture and Bruises he the said Samuel
Golding
< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, tha the said Samuel Golding< no role > in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his
death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Thomas Greenaway< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his 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
Thos. Greenaway< no role > Foreman




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