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 fourth day of February in the thirty seventh 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 John Resbridge now
here lying dead by the oath of Richard Parrish< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Junior , John Bride< no role > John Trevies< no role >
George Allsop< no role > William Fairfax< no role > William Hester< no role > David Horseborough< no role > Thomas Bushell< no role >
Dagnell Richard< no role > Williams James Ham Robert Bousfield< no role > George Burtow< no role > and Edward
Smith 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 John Resbridge< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said John
Resbridge on the third day of February in the year aforesaid being on the ground floor of a
certain warehouse< no role > belonging to the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the
East Indies there situate and employed together with one Richard Allneave Richard Jolly and
John Brickell< no role > in hoisting a certain large piece of Timber of great weight called a Cap for a foist
up to the first floor of the said warehouse It so happened that after they had hoisted up
the said piece of Timber and placed a shore under it that the said shore accidentally casually
and by misfortune gave way and the said Cap and joist accidentally casually and by
misfortune fell down to and upon and against the said John Resbridge< no role > by means whereof
the said John Resbridge< no role > did then and there receive one mortal wound in and upon
the head of him the said John Resbridge< no role > of which said mortal wound he the said John Resbridge< no role >
did then and there instantly die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said John Resbridge< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune came to his death and not otherwise And that the said Cap and joist are of the value
of two pence and the property of and in the possession of the aforesaid United Company of
Merchants of England trading to the East Indies . In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Richard Parrish< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the
rest of his fellows in their presence have hereunto set their hands and seals the day
year and place first abovewritten.

Richard Parrish< no role > [mark] Foreman