London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our
Sovereign Lord< no role >
the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate
in the Ward of Cripplegate
without in London
aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of January in the thirty seventh
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain
and so forth
before
Thomas Shelton< no role >
Gentelman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London
and Borough of Southwark
on view of the body of
James Bird< no role >
now here lying dead
by the oath of
Josiah Harvey< no role >
,
Clement Poole< no role >
,
Joseph Reynolds< no role >
,
Charles Webb< no role >
,
John Hull< no role >
,
William Smith< no role >
,
John Hamilton< no role >
,
Robert Piercy< no role >
Hodge,
Thomas Kemble< no role >
,
Matthew Hillback< no role >
,
Thomas Powell< no role >
,
William Blake< no role >
, &
William Walbanke< 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
James Bird< no role >
came to his death
say upon their oath that the said
James Bird< no role >
on the twenty seventh day of January in
the year aforesaid being driving a certain waggon drawn by four horses from and out
of a certain yard there situate belonging to
Felice Calvert< no role >
and Company into a certain
street
and King's common highway there called Whitecross street
and the said
James Bird< no role >
being between the said Waggon and the gateway of the said yard while the said
waggon
was passing out of the said yard as aforesaid It so happened that the said
James Bird< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune was pressed between the Shaft of
the said Waggon and the Wall of the said gateway by means whereof the said James
Bird did then and there receive a mortal bruise in and upon his belly of which
said mortal bruise he the said
James Bird< no role >
did then and there instantly die and so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
James Bird< no role >
in manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and
not otherwise And that the shaft of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said
James Bird< no role >
and is of the value of one shilling and
the property of and in the possession ofSmith and Company of Islington
in the
County of Middlesex
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said
Josiah Harvey< 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.
Josiah Harvey< no role >
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