City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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Image 73 of 53811th February 1774


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 Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh day of February in the Fourteenth Year
of the Regin 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 City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Joseph Dell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Curtis< no role >
John Brigham< no role > , George Whitroe< no role > , William Ewer< no role > , Joseph Barwell< no role > , William Nesham< no role >
James Shorrock< no role > , Francis Bachelor< no role > , John Heath< no role > , Richard Tagg< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , Edward
Haselham
< no role > Thomas Staphes< no role > and Edward Nester< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Joseph Dell< no role > came to
his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Dell< no role > a Carter on the
fifth day of January in the Year aforesaid, being driving a certain
Empty Cart drawn by three Horses in Brewer's Yard situate in the
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid
and then and there Riding upon the Copse of the said Cart, and that
the said Joseph Dell< no role > then and there fell from the Copse of the said Cart
upon the Stone Pavement in the said Yard, and thereby then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one mortal Fracture
in and upon his Right Leg, of which said mortal Fracture he the said
Joseph Dell< no role > from the said Fifth day of January in the Year aforesaid until
the Tenth day of February in the same Year. at the said Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing
did live, on which said tenth day of February in the Year aforesaid, at the
said Parish of St. Margaret, he the said Joseph Dell< no role > of the mortal
Fracture aforesaid, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to
his death, and not otherwise.In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said John Curtis< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on
the 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

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
John Curtis< no role > Foreman




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