MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the Twentieth Day of April in the Twenty fifth 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
Robert Bullock< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
George Black< no role > , Samuel Cureton< no role > , Richard Brookes< no role > , William Bowman< no role > , John Armstrong< no role >
Thomas Pike< no role > , James Gratton< no role > , John Moray, John Gray< no role > , William Rense< no role > , James Lecounte< no role >
Abraham Doxey< no role > , Thomas Lewin< no role > , William Redmacob, Thomas Richardson< no role > and John Lester< 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, the
said Robert Bullock< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Bullock< no role > on the Eighteenth Day of
April in the year aforesaid being a Journeyman to Samuel Brett< no role > of Long Alley in the
Parish and County aforesaid Dyer It so happened That he the said Robert Bullock< no role >
then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune touched a Brass Wire which was
fixed to a Spring Gun Loaded with Gunpowder and Leaden Bullets in a place called
The Rolling Left over the Dyehouse of the said Samuel Brett< no role > whichBy Means
whereof the said Gun then and there Went off and was discharged and the said
Samuel Brett< no role > Robert Bullock< no role > did thereby then and there receive from the Leaden Bullets
aforesaid so shot off and discharged as aforesaid One Mortal Wound in and through the
Left Arm of him the said Robert Bullock< no role > of which said Mortal Wound And by
Means of the Loss of the Blood which issued from thence he the said Robert Bullock< no role >
then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that
the said Robert Bullock< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death And that the said Gun and Brass Wire were
moving to the Death of the said Robert Bullock< no role > . That the said Gun is of the Value of five
Shillings and the said Wire of the Value of Six pence and the Property and in the
Possession of the said Samuel Brett< no role >

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said George Black< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said 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

George Black< no role > [mark] Foreman