City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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31st December 1793 - 24th December 1794

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the twenty first day of January in the thirty fourth 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 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 John Buddin< no role > now here
lying dead by the Path of Thomas Weightman< no role > Robert Reade< no role > John Blacket< no role > Ralph Monk< no role >
Jonathan Perkins< no role > Thomas Taylor< no role > William Hughes< no role > Richard Benson< no role > Thomas Williams< no role > John
Dolphin
< no role > Edwin Bliss< no role > John Dowson< no role > Henry Madgin< no role > William Griffiths< no role > William Musstor< no role >
Richard Morrison< no role > Christopher Scott< no role > and William Bumpsted 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 in what manner the said John Buddin< no role > came to his death
say upon their Oath that a certain person to the Jurros aforesaid unkown on the eighteenth
day of January in the thirty fourth year aforesaid being driving a certain Cart drawn
by too horses along a us their a certain public street called Thames Street situate in the parish of Saint
Michael Crothed lane in the Wars of Bridge in London aforesaid If so happened that the said Cart
accidentally casually and by misfortune struck against a certain other Cart then paying along the
said street by means whereof the said John Buddin< no role > who was driving the said cast mentioned Cart was
then and there violently forced and jambed by the shaft wheel of the said cast mentioned Cart to and
against the wall of a certain house there situate by means where of the said John Buddin< no role > did then and there
receive one mortal bruise in and upon the Body of him the said John Budding< no role > of which said mortal bruise
the said John Buddin< no role > from the said eighteenth day of January in the year aforesaid until the nineteeth
day of the same month of January in the same year as well at the said parish of Saint Michael Crooked lane
in the Ward of Bridge in London aforesaid as also at the said psh of Saint Bartholomew the less in London aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live [..] On which said nineteenth day of January in the year aforesaid
at the parish and ward last aforesaid the said John Buddin< no role > of the said mortal bruise did die And so the
Jurros aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Buddin< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise and that the
said Cart was moving to the death of the said John Buddin< no role > and is of the value of one shelling and the property
of some person or persons unknown. In Witnefs where of as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas
Weightman the foreman of the said Jurros on 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 first above written

Thos. Weightman< no role > [mark] Foreman




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