City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1781 - 29th December 1781

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Image 424 of 52515th October 1781


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
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fifteenth day October in the twenty first 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
James Green< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Blatch
< no role > This name instance is in set 18471847. George Booth< no role > , Edward Hawkins< no role > Richard Davies< no role >
Thomas Cowley< no role > Charles Smith< no role > Robert Perryman< no role > , Robert
Burn
< no role > Henry Nash< no role > Francis Whaley< no role > , Matthew Hill< no role > , Richard
Oliver
< no role > and John Ray< 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 James Green< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said James Green< no role > on the
Twenty fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid being driving
a certain Cart loaded with Houshold Goods and drawn by
one Horse upon Westminster Bridge in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened
that the said James Green< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune Slipped and fell down, and that the Near Wheel
of the said Cart passed over both the Legs of the said James Green< no role > ,
whereby both the Legs of him the said James Green< no role > were
Fractured and broken, of which said Mortal Facture he
the said James Green< no role > from the said Twenty fifth day of
September in the Year aforesaid until the thirteenth day
of October in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing
did live, on which said thirteenth day of October at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid he the said James Green< no role >
of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said James
Green
< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death and not other wise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John
Blatch
< no role > This name instance is in set 18471847. 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Blatch< no role > This name instance is in set 18471847. Foreman




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