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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty ninth 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 White< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Astmore< no role > , William Booth< no role > , John Pearson< no role > ,
Henry Collins< no role > , Richard Everet Combe< no role > , William Weston< no role > , John
Constable
< no role > , Henry Brown< no role > , Alexander Anderson< no role > , William Whitworth< no role >
James Hearn< no role > and Daniel Hoare< 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 William White< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William White< no role > a Bricklayer
on the twenty seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid at the said Parish
of Saint Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, in
Queens Square there situate, was unloading a Certain Cart loaden
with Bricks and taking the Horse from the said Card, it so happened
that by then falling down of the Shafts of the said Cart the said William
White
< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune received
a Mortal Fracture in and upon his left leg, of which said mortal
Fracture he the said William White< no role > at the said Parish of Saint,
Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, from the said
twenty seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid until the twenty
seventh day of July in the same Year did languish and languishing
did live, on which said twenty seventh day of July in the year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, did die. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid de say, that the said William
White
< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwiseIn Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Ashmore< 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 Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jos: Ashmore< no role > [mark] Foreman




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