City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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City of 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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty eight day of July in the twenty eighth
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 William Thomas< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Henry Rowed< no role > , John Blundell< no role > , John Jones< no role > , John
Bevan
< no role > , John Arten< no role > , Bemean Clifford< no role > , Robert Oats< no role > , Lewis
Keene
< no role > , Jacob Woodward< no role > , William Claxton< no role > , Jacob Woodward< no role >
Junior and John Forthsyte 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 William Thomas< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That on the Twenty sixth day of this
Instant July James Evans< no role > a Labourer was carefully driving a
certain Cart in the High Road at Pimlico in the said Parish
of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid and that the said William Thomas< no role > the Infant Aged
three Years and upwards being Riding in the said last it so happened
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said William
Thomas
< no role > fell out of and from the said Cart unto the Ground in the
said Road or Kings High way aforesaid and thereby then and there
Received divers Wounds and Bruises in and upon his Head and
Stomach of which said Mortal Wound and Bruises he the said
William Thomas< no role > the Infant then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
William Thomas< no role > the Infant in manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said Henry Rowed< 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
abovementioned

Tho. Prichard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Hry Rowed< no role > [mark] Foreman




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