London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the parish of Saint
Mary Abchurch in the Ward of Walbrook in London aforesaid on the sixth day of August in the thirty third
Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King
defender of the faith and so forth 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 Woman unknown now here lying
dead by the Oath of Thomas Williams< no role > George Gale< no role > James Hardy< no role > John Wicks< no role > Edmund Parry Joseph
Kilby Ralph< no role > Newham James Amer Philip Nivian< no role > John Driver< no role > John Garratt< no role > William Martin< no role > John
Davis Thomas Maiden Joseph Giles< no role > and John How< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London who
being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what
manner the said Woman unknown came to her say upon their Oath that the said woman unknown
on the fifth day of August in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid at London aforesaid being going
down a certain pair of stairs leading from a certain book room on the ground floor in the dwelling house of
one George Gale< no role > into a certain Cellarin and belongingin and belonging to the said dwelling house It so happened
that the said woman unknown accidentally casually by misfortune fell down the said Stairs and is and again
the Ground there by means whereof she the said woman unknown did then and there receive one mortal wound
and contusion in and upon the back part of the head of her the said woman unknown of which said
mortal Wound and contusion she the said Woman unknown did then and there instantly die. And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said woman unknown in manner and by the
Means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally KilledIn Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Williams< 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 at their hands and seals the
Day year and place first above written.

Thos. Williams [mark] Foreman< no role >