City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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Image 149 of 46522nd September 1788


London


Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]


examd.


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish of Saints
Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty second day of September in the twenty eighth 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 Etc before
Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of Elizabeth
Rhodes
< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Jonathan Perkins< no role > Thomas Taylor< no role > , John Blackcet< no role > Thomas Adams< no role > James Paterson< no role > Henry Cutt< no role >
Robert Fraser Lavis Cole, John Brockholes< no role > William Bumstead< no role > Thomas Fellows< no role > John Garner< no role > James Wallis< no role > James Christie< no role > William
Cope and Henry Wetherhed good and lawfal Men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > came to her death say upon their oath
that a certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown in the twentieth day of September in the twenty eighth
year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint Sepulcher in the County of Middlesex of being driving a certain Coach drawn by four Horses along and
through a certain public street and common Highway there called Saint John's Street and the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > then being in the said
public Street and common Highway aforesaid It is happened that the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell to
and against the Ground there and near to the said Coach and while she said Coach was then and there going and he going along and
through the said public street and common Highway as aforesaid By means whereof the near Bender Wheel of the said Coach did then and
there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and pass over the Body of her the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > Where by the said
Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal wounds and Bruises in and upon the Back sides arms Legs and Body of
her the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > Of which said mortal wounds and bruises she the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > on the said twentieth day of September
in the twenty eighth year aforesaid as well as the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the said County of Middlesex as also at the Parish of Saint
Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did languish and langushing did live On which said twentieth day of
September in the twenty eighth year aforesaid at the Parish last aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > of the
said mortal wounds and bruises did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role > on the
day and year aforesaid as London aforesaid in the Parish and ward aforesaid in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by
misfortune was accidentally killed And that the near hinder Wheel of the said Coach was moving to the death of the said Elizabeth Rhodes< no role >
and is of the value of sur shilling and the property and in the possession of Richard Mountain< no role > of Snowhill in London aforesaid Inn silder
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jonathan Perkins< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the
rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day upon and place first above written

Jonathan [mark] Perkins< no role >




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