Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty
first day of September in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third King of Great Britain 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
Joseph Guy< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Isaac Smith< no role > Edward Couch< no role > Decimus
Hayward Thomas< no role > Cooper Tyler Hays Thomas Rosewarne< no role > John Leary< no role > John Lee< no role > Luke
Canner Richard Friend Thomas Hooper< no role > William Howard< no role > James Site< no role > William Williams< no role >
and William Dolby< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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 Joseph Guy< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Joseph Guy< no role > on the seventeenth day of September in the year aforesaid
being greatly intoxicated with liquor and being driving a Cart drawn by two horses
along and through a certain street there situate It so happened that one of the said horses
accidentally casually and by misfortune took fright and ran with great violence along the
said street and that the said Joseph Guy< no role > in endeavouring to stop the said horse accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell to the ground there and the wheels of the said Cart did
then and there accidentally go upon and pass over the left side of the body of him the said
Joseph Guy< no role > and the said Joseph Guy< no role > by means thereof did then and there receive one mortal
fracture in and upon the said left side of the body of him the said Joseph Guy< no role > and also one
mortal fracture of the left arm of him the said Joseph Guy< no role > of which said mortal fractures
he the said Joseph Guy< no role > did then and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Joseph Guy< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise And that the wheels of the said
Cart were moving to the death of the said Joseph Guy< no role > and are of the value of one shilling each
and the property and in the possession of William Slater< no role > of Tothillfields Westminster [..]
Melter In Witness whereof as well the said Isaac Smith< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors
as the said Coroner to this Inquisition have [..] set their hands and seals the day
year and place first abovewritten.

Isaac Smith< no role > [mark]