London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate in London aforesaid
on the third day of August 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 William Leak< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of Richard Dale< no role > William Field< no role > Edward Chicherly< no role > John Brotherton< no role > Edward Bryans< no role > John Jones< no role >
William Moore< no role > George Wilkie< no role > Archilans Cruse< no role > Charles Shepherd< no role > Henry Lewis< no role > John Milward< no role >
John Stirling< no role > Moses Brent< no role > James Adams< no role > Joseph Cockerton< no role > Joseph Keat< no role > Joseph Sharpe< no role >
Isaac Coleman< no role > John Wright< no role > Richard Pugh< no role > Isaac Beer< no role > and Harry May< 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 William Leak< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said William Leak< no role > an infant about the age
of eight years on the first day of August in the year aforesaid being clambering upon the horse wheel
of a certain Cornmill belonging to one Blackburne there situate which was then at
work It so happened that the said William Leak< no role > , accidentally casually and by misfortune
became entangled in the Cogs of the said wheel and was thereby forced to and against
the Multiplying wheel of the said Mill by means whereof the said William Leach< no role >
did then and there receive divers mortal fractures in and upon his head of which said
mortal fractures the said William Leach< no role > did then and there die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said William Leach< 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 Richard Dale< 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 above
written.

Richd. Dale< no role > [mark]