Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
Saint Saviour within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the
thirteenth day of November in the thirty sixth 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 Peter Hall< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of William Banks< no role > John Toms< no role > Hugh Griegg< no role > William Stanbury John
Lamprey Alexander Coggill Thomas Sanders< no role > Robert Adams< no role > Samuel Shaw< no role > Thomas Hooper< no role >
Thomas Hughs< no role > Ralph Ardene< no role > Henry Hughs< no role > Barnard Ellis< no role > & Joseph Martin< no role > good and lawful men
of the Borough of Southwark 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 Peter Hall< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that the said Peter Hall< no role > on the eleventh day of November in the year aforesaid
being intoxicated with excessive drinking and being going up certain stairs leading to a certain
Room on the first floor of the dwelling house of one James Moor< no role > situate in the Parish aforesaid
within the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid It so happened that the said Peter
Hall accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down the said stairs unto and upon the Ground
floor of the said dwelling house by means whereof the said Peter Hall< no role > did then and there receive divers
mortal bruises and fractures in and upon the head of him the said Peter Hall< no role > of which said
mortal bruises and fractures he the said Peter Hall< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Peter Hall< 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 William Banks< 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.

W. Banks [mark] Foreman