MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Leonard Bromley in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty second Day of April in the Twenty third 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Phillip Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Henry Barnes< no role > , William Pine< no role > , Nathaniel Spray< no role > , William Nock< no role > , Thomas Filler John
Church Joseph Penny< no role > feather, William Bailey< no role > , Robert Whitaker< no role > , Henry Perry< no role > , Joseph
Webb< no role > , James Cole< no role > , John Williams< no role > Charles Balderson< no role > , Richard Reeve< no role > , Joseph Atkins< no role >
and Henry Parnell< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, by
said Phillip Smith< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Philip Smith< no role > on the Twenty first Day
of April in the Year aforesaid being furiously riding a Gelding along the Kings
Highways in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said Phillip
Smith then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from the said
Gelding to and upon the Ground By Means whereof he the said Philip Smith< no role >
then and there received divers mortal Bruises in and upon the Head and Body
of him the said Philip Smith< no role > Of which said Mortal Bruises he the said
Philip Smith< no role > then and there instantly Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Philip Smith< no role > in manner and
by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his
Death And that the said Gelding was moving to the [..] ath of the said
Philip Smith< no role > And is of the Price of Forty Shillings and the Property
And in the Possession of some Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Henry Barnes< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Henry Burns [mark] Foreman