London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty
seventh day of August in the thirty fourth 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 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 Thomas Wilkes< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Willliam Pellit Michael Borrall< no role > Ralph Monk< no role >
James Atchinson< no role > Robert Read< no role > Hugh White< no role > John Bush< no role > William Sharratt William Hughes< no role > John Dolphin< no role >
John Denison< no role > William Muston< no role > Joseph Hunt< no role > Lewis Cole< no role > Charles Haskin< no role > 's 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 when how and in what manner the said Thomas Wilkes< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that on the twenty sixth day of August in the year aforesaid the said Thomas Wilkes< no role >
being upon the top of a certain house of oneVarney situate in the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the
Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid It so happened that the said Thomas Wilkes< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell from the top of the said house against and upon the stone pavement of a
certain Court fronting the said dwelling house by means whereof he the said Thomas Wilkes< no role > did then and
there receivedivers mortal wounds bruises and fractures in and upon his head neck and divers other
parts of his body of which said said mortal wounds bruises and fractures he the said John Welkes< no role > as
well at the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre as also at the said parish of Saint Bartholomew the less
in the ward aforesaid did languish and languishing did live On which said twenty sixth day of August in the year aforesaid
at the parish and ward last aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Thomas Wilkes< no role > of the said mortal
wounds bruises and fractures did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said Thomas Wilkes< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune
was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Coroner as the
said William Attit< 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
abovewritten

Wm. [mark] Pettit< no role > Foreman