City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 541 of 94929th July 1790


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T: Shelton
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty
ninth day of July in the thirtieth 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
Sarah Hatchett< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of James Freshfield< no role > Thomas Mears< no role > John Brown< no role >
John Scott< no role > John Blackett< no role > John Berry< no role > , William Packridge< no role > Ralph Monk< no role > William Plaskett< no role > Henry
Madgin William Fraile James Atchison< no role > Thomas Ordish< no role > and William Catchpole< no role > good and lawful 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 is
what manner the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > came to her Death say upon their Oath that a certain person whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid is yet unknown on the twenty seventh day of January in the year aforesaid
in the Parish ofin the County of Middlesex being driving a certain Cart drawn by
three horses along and through a certain open and public place and Kings common highway there called
Moorfields and the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > being then and there going and passing along and through the said open and
public place and Kings common Highway and near unto the said Cart it so happened that the said Sarah
Hatchett did then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fall to and against the Ground there
and that the Off whell of the said Cart did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune pass over
the Head of her the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > By means whereof she the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > did then and there
receive one Mortal wound and fracture in and upon her said Head Of which mortal wound and fracture
she the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > on the said Twenty seventh day of July in the Parish of Saint Bartholomew
the Great in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > in manner and by means aforesaid
casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed And that the said off wheel of the said Cart was moving
to the death of the said Sarah Hatchett< no role > and is of the value of One shillingand the property and in
the possession of certain person or persons whose name or names to the Jurors is as are as yet unknown
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James Freshfield< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors in
their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

James Freshfield< no role > [mark] Foreman




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