London

T:Shelton
Corr. [mark]

examd.

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Martin Vintry in the Ward
of Vintry in London aforesaid on the twenty fourth day of September 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 before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our
said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of a certain Man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of William Backhouse< no role > Thomas Jones< no role > William Young< no role > John King< no role > John Barber< no role > Luke Syker< no role >
John Islip John Guise< no role > Adam Ragg< no role > Thomas Howard< no role > Joseph Dimpsey< no role > Thomas Pinkney< no role > and Nathaniel Ward< no role > good and lawful Men of the City
of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King where how and in what manner the
said Man whose name is unknown came to his death say upon their oath that she said Man whose name is unknown on the twenty third
day of September in the twenty eighth year aforesaid as the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being upon a certain wooden Board
called the Shirting Board of a Cistern belonging to one Benjamin Travers< no role > on the outside of the Dwellinghouse of him the said Benjamin
Travers it so happened that the said wooden Board called a Harking board did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune give
way and break by means whereof the said Man whose name is unknown did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune
fall from the said wooden Board called as [..] king Board into a certain open place there called Emperors head alley and to and
against the Ground there whereby the said it an whose name is unknown did then and there receive one mortal wound and Contusion in
and upon his left Temple Of which said mortal wound and contusion the said Man whose name is unknown did then and there
instantly die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that she said Man whose name is unknown then and there
casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed And that the said skirting Woard was moving to the death of the said Man whose
name is unknown and is of the value of one Killing and was the property and is in the possession of the said Benjamin Travers< no role > In
Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Backhouse< no role > the 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

Wm. Backhouse [mark] Foreman