City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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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
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth day of September in the twenty 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 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 Joseph Mould< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
William Mourn< no role > , Anthony Fry< no role > , Peter Marshall< no role >
Thomas Broadstock< no role > , Samuel Tessett< no role > , William Whiteworth< no role > , Robert
Minns
< no role > , Robert Sampson< no role > , John Atkins< no role > , Aaron Loton< no role > , Henry Sevorey< no role > ,
and William Skirving< 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 Joseph Mould< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Joseph Mould< no role > a Brick layer's
Labourer on the fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, being at Work
on the back part of an house situate in Dartmouth Row in the Parish aforesaid,
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and carrying an had full of Bricks
upon a Ladder on the outside of the said building, it so happened, that a
Round of the said Ladder broke and that the said Joseph Mould< no role > ,
Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune fell down off and from the
said Ladder at the height of two Stories unto the Ground, by means
whereof he the said Joseph Mould< no role > then and there received One mortal
Fracture in and upon his Right Thigh and divers Bruises in his Body
of which said mortal Fracture and Bruises he the said Joseph Mould< no role > ,
from the said fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, untill the seventeenth
day of the same Month in the same Year, at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said
seventeenth day of September in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid of the mortal fracture and Bruises aforesaid,
He the said Joseph Mould< no role > did die, And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph Mould< 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 William Maun
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 above mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Wm. Mown< no role >
Foreman }
[mark]




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