City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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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 sixth day of August in the thirty ninth 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 William Quarray< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of John Goater< no role > , George Godfrey< no role > , John Sherlock< no role > , John Evans< no role > , James
Stock, Robert Macdowell< no role > , Thomas Broad< no role > , James Dennison< no role > , William Burton< no role > , William
Davis, George Noone< no role > , John Reid< no role > , Richard Hale< no role > , and George Dyson< 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 William Quarray< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said William
Quarray on the thirty first day July in the year aforesaid at the parish of Saint Botolph
without Aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate without in London aforesaid being near
into a certain Stallion in a certain street there situate called Goswell street It
to happened that the said Stallion did accidentally casually and by misfortune
violently bite the right arm of him the said William Quarray thereby giving to
him the said William Quarrey< no role > one mortal wound in hi said right arm of
which said mortal wound he the said William Quarry< no role > as well at the said parish
of saint Botolph without Aldersgate in the ward of Aldersgate without in London
aforesaid as also at the aforesaid parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the
Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid from the said thirty first day of July
in the year aforesaid intil the fifth day of August in the same year did languish
and languishing did live and afterwards (to wit) on the same day and year last aforesaid
at the parish and ward last aforesaid in London aforesaid the said William Quarray< no role >
of the said mortal wound did die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid dosay that the said William Quarray< 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 Stallion was moving to the death of the said
William Quarray< no role > and is of the value of forty shillings and the property and in
the possession ofDimsdale of Aldersgate street in this City of London Coach master
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Goater< 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 above written.

Jno. Goater< no role > [mark]




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