Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Enfield in the County of
Middlesex , the Third Day of May in the twenty second 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Robert Whisler< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Chenny Martin< no role > , John Steam< no role > , George Adams< no role > , Edward Aston< no role > , George Law< no role > , John Allen< no role > ,
Joseph Winterbourn< no role > , Richard Smith< no role > , William Hobkirk, John King< no role > , John Coster< no role > ,
Robert Lake< no role > , James Dresdale< no role > , Laban Tillbrook< no role > , John Gregory< no role > , John Glasscock< no role > ,
and Loomworths Dean
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Robert Whister< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Robert Whister< no role > on the Twenty ninth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid being Walking in The Carriage way in the Parish
of Edmonton in the County aforesaid and One Clement Lovedre< no role > being furiously riding a
certain Gelding along the said Carriage way It so happened That the said Gelding then and there
accidentally casually and by misfortune [..] forced down the said Robert Whister< no role > to the Ground By
Means whereof he the said Robert Whister< no role > then and there received Divers mortal Bruises
in and upon the Head, Body and Legs of him the said Robert Whister< no role > Of which said mortal
Bruises he the said Robert Whister< no role > from the said Twenty ninth Day of April in the Year
[..] in the same Year at the Parish of [..]
[..] County aforesaid [..]
Languish and Languishing did live On which said first Day of [..]
aforesaid He the said Robert Whisler< no role > at the said Parish first abovementioned of the mortal
Bruises aforesaid did Die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
Say That the said Robert Whisler< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune Came to his Death And That the said Gelding was the Cause of the Death
of the said Robert Whisler< no role > and is of the Value of Two Shillings and Six pence and the Property
and in the Possession ofLenox of Duck Lane in the said Parish of Edmonton or of her
Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Chenery Martin< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Chenery Martin [mark] Foreman




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