London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower
in London
aforesaid on the fifth day of August
in the thirty ninth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before Thomas
Shelton Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London
and Borough
of Southwark
on view of the body of
Patrick White< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath
of
John Crane< no role >
,
Anthony Woodland< no role >
,
Joseph Fennell< no role >
,
James Blanch< no role >
,
Richard Sharlock< no role >
,
Joshua Jency< no role >
,
Henry Hadden< no role >
,
John Jones< no role >
,
William Holman< no role >
, William Ares, Joseph
Colman,
John Ramshire< no role >
,
Samuel Wright< no role >
, and
Thomas Bailey< 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
Patrick White< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that
the said
Patrick White< no role >
on the second day of August in the year aforesaid at
the parish and Ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid being greatly intoxicated
with liquor did accidentally casually and by misfortune fall to and against
the ground in a certain street there situate and did thereby then and there
receive one mortal wound in and upon the back part of his head of
which said mortal wound he the said
Patrick White< no role >
did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Patrick
White
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
John Crane< 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.
John Coroner< no role >
[mark] Foreman