London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken in London
aforesaid on the seventeenth day of December in the thirty fourth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and 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
Joseph Barnett< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of James Jackson< no role > James Moffatt< no role >
Benjamin Burton< no role > William Cordell< no role > William Green< no role > James Cox< no role > Robert Drimmy Samuel< no role >
Pritchell John Briscoe< no role > Baggett Skedmore< no role > William Shawn< no role > Samuel Shenston< no role >
Richard Smith< no role > Thomas Fearnley< no role > James Dron< no role > Thomas Dean< no role > and Thomas Gilson< 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 Joseph
Barnett came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Joseph Barnett< no role > being upon the
landing of a certain one pair of stairs room in the dwelling house of John Granger< no role > there situate
and being greatly intoxicated It so happened that the sd Joseph Barnett accidentally casually
and by misfortune fell from and off the said Landing place down the said stairs whereby the
said Joseph Barnett< no role > did then and mortally rupture a certain bloodvessell in the left leg of him the
said Joseph Barnett of which sd mortal rupture of such Bloodvessel he the said Joseph Barnett< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the sd Joseph
Barnett< no role > 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 James
Jackson 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.

James Jackson< no role > [mark] Foreman