London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the ninth day of September in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Ford< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath
of Henry Clark< no role > John Metcalf< no role > William Woollat< no role > John Lewis< no role > William Lovell< no role > Samuel
Clanfield George Cooper< no role > John Cooper< no role > Samuel Gurrier< no role > Thomas Higgins< no role > James Flude< no role >
and Cornelius Swift< no role > This name instance is in set 4138. 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 Ford< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Thomas Ford< no role > on the said ninth day of September in the year
aforesaid being seated on a certain painters Machine fastened to the Window of
the three pair of stairs room in the dwelling house of John Anderson< no role > there situate
It so happened that the said Machine accidentally casually and by misfortune gave
way and the said Thomas Ford< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down
and upon the ground and stone pavement there by means whereof the said Thomas
Ford did then and there receive divers internal injuries in his body of which said
internal injuries in his body he the said Thomas Ford< no role > did then and there instantly
die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Thomas Ford< 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 Henry Clark< 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

Henry Clark< no role > [mark] Foreman