City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1763 - 30th December 1763

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.


An Inquisition Indented, taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of St. John the Evangelist , in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the
Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the twelfth day of May in the Third 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on View of the Body of of Mary Macglouson< no role > and Infant, then and there lying Dead, upon
the Oath of Peter Jackson< no role > , Robert Smith< no role > , Henry Harrison< no role > , Francis Norris< no role > , William
Murray
< no role > , Jacob King< no role > , Charles Carpenter< no role > , John Spiller< no role > , Richard Metford< no role > , Daniel Twiss< no role > ,
John Brown< no role > , William Clew< no role > , and John Cox< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said City and Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duty sworn and
charged to inquire for Our said Lord, the King, when, how, and by what Means the said
Mary Macglouson came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Eleventh day of May
in the Year aforesaid, Thomas Greaves< no role > being carefully driving a certain Cart loaden with Stone,
drawn, by three Horses, in a Publick Street called little Peter Street in the said Parish of St. John the
Evangelist within the City Liberty and County aforesaid; And the said Thomas Greaves< no role > having hold of
and leading one of the said Horses, so drawing the said loaded Cart as aforesaid, by the House, wherein
the said Mary Macglouson lived, situate in little Peter Street aforesaid; It so happened that the said
Mary Macglouson came out of the said House into the said Street, and then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune slipt in her feet and fell to the Ground, near unto the Off Wheel of the
said Cart; by reason whereof the said off Wheel of the said Cart, did then and there go upon and pass
over the Head of the said Mary Macglouson, whereby the said Mary Macglonson did then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one Mortal Bruise on her said Head, of which said Mortal
Bruise she the said Mary Macglouson then and there instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Mary Macglonson in manner and form aforesaid, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death, and not otherwise, And that the said off Wheel of the
said Cart so drawn as aforesaid, was moving to the Death of the said Mary Macglonson, and is of the Value of five
shillings, and the Property and in the Possession of John Wilkins< no role > and William Davis< no role > of the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid Paviours. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Peter Jackson< no role > 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.

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Peter Jackson< no role > Foreman




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