City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex

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Informations taken this Twentieth
day of April 1785 at Knightsbridge
in the Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty of Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Thomas Dove< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

William Dove< no role > , (Aged Eleven Years) Son of
Thomas Dove< no role > the Deced Says that his Father
Yesterday in the Afternoon drove a Waggon
laoded with Coals and Drawn by fowl
Horses, to Henington, and was returning
with the Empty Waggon about half after
Eight o' Clock and being in the Road
near the Duke of Rutland's in the
Parish of St. Margaret Westmr. and Riding
upon the Shift of the Waggon Deced with
his Whip Struck the Horses, that they took
fright and run forward where Deced
endeavoured to stop the Horses, but was
not able and fell of the Shaft on the
Near side of the Horses, and the Near
Wheels immediately pass is over the Deced
Head which Fractured it on the
Right side, and Deced never spoke afterwd.
but died immediately, and say, that
it was merely Accidental, and says
that the Horses and Waggon were the
Property of Mr. Griffiths Coal Merchant
of lower Grosvernor Place Prinches in the
Parish of St. George Hanover Square