City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 181 of 63120th March 1795


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

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is
to say at the parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate without
in London aforesaid on the twentieth day of March in the thirty 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 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 Thomas Quilter< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Davis< no role > Abel Stevenson< no role > John King< no role >
William Barnfield< no role > John Potter< no role > Richard Sykes< no role > William Allen< no role > John Viven< no role > Benjamin Yates< no role >
John Page< no role > Edward Bott< no role > Robert Cottle< no role > John Barlow< no role > William Fisher< no role > William Crawley< no role > James
Kingham and Edward Jackson< 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 in what manner the said Thomas Quilter< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Thomas Quilter< no role > on the seventeenth day of March in the year aforesaid
being driving a certain Cart along and through a certain publick street and Kings
common highway situate in the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid called
Bishopsgate street It so happened that the said Thomas Quilter accidentally casually
and by misfortune fell to the Ground there and one of the wheels of the said Cart accidentally
casually and by misfortune passed over the head of him the said Thomas Quitter by
means whereof he the said Thomas Quilter< no role > did then and there receive one mortal
fracture upon the Scull of him the said Thomas Quilter< no role > of which said mortal
fracture he the said Thomas Quilter< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Quilter< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to had death and not
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Davis< 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 year and place first abovewritten

John Davis< no role > [mark] Foreman
John




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