London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say that the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the fourth day of June in the thirty fifth 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
Cowner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on
view of the body of James Atkins< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Edward
Wright Whitcomb< no role > James Aldie< no role > William Pottit< no role > Robert Read< no role > Ralph Monk John
Yeates Thomas Frith< no role > Michael Bovall< no role > Thomas Jones< no role > Peter White< no role > George Steward< no role >
Gerrand Willett< no role > George Winterton< no role > and Robert Macdowell< 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 when how and in what manner the said
James Atkins< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said James Atkins< no role >
on the third day of June in the year aforesaid being on a certain stage erected
in a certain brew house belonging to Messrs Hanbury and Smith situate in the
parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripplegate without
in London aforesaid It so happened that the said James Atkins< no role > accidentally casually
and by misfortune fell from and off the said stage down to and against the Ground
and stone pavement there by means whereof the said James Atkins< no role > did then and
there receive on mortal fracture of the Scull of him the said James Atkins< no role > of
which said Mortal fracture he the said James Atkins< no role > as well at the said parish
of saint Giles without Cripplegate in the ward of Cripplegate without in London aforesaid
as also at the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live and afterwards
to wit on the same day and year last aforesaid at the parish and ward last aforesaid in
London aforesaid the said James Atkins< no role > of the said matel fracture did die And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said James Atkins< no role > in
mannor and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed
In Witnesses where of as well the said Coroner as the said Edward Wright< no role > Whitcomb the< no role >
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

Ed Whitecomb< no role > Fore Man< no role >