Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint Ann in
the Liberty of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at
Westminster , the Twenty first day of April in the First 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, and in
the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and sixty one Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our
Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of Westminster aforesaid, Upon a Veiw of the Body of James
Chester< no role > then and there lying Dead by the Oaths of Charles Drew< no role > , Thomas Nethersoler< no role > John Habberborn< no role >
John Wheeler< no role > , Evan Thomas< no role > , Richard Heart< no role > , Francis Hobler< no role > , Stephen Mitchell< no role > , Peter Du Common< no role > Robert
Baldey< no role > , George Long< no role > , Robert Richard< no role > , and John Fox< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty, who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for an Sovereign Lord
the King how when where and in what manner the said James Chester< no role > came to his Death say upon their
Oaths. That on Sunday the 19th day of this Instant April the said James Chester< no role > being in the middle of a
common Highway loading from Buckingham Gate to Pimlico in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the Liberty and County aforesaid and the Driver of a common Hackney Coach No. 7
being at that time driving of the said Coach with two Horses to it, it so happened that the said Horses and
Coach accidentally, casually, and by Misfortune went over the head of the said James Chester< no role > by means where [..]
he the said James Chester< no role > from the Weight and Pressure of the said Coach so drawn as aforesaid did then and
there receive one Mortal Bruise or Wound in and upon his said Head of which said Mortal Bruise or Wound
the said James Chester< no role > then and there instantly Dies And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said James Chester< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually, and by Misfortune
came to his Death and not otherwise, and that the said Coach and Horses were the Cause of the Death of,
the said James Chester< no role > , and that the said Coach is of the Value of One Pound, and the said two Horses of the
Value of One Pound, amounting in the whole to the Sum of Two Pounds of Lawfull Money of Great Britain
and one the property and in the Possession of Judith Hutchenson< no role > of the Parish of St. Margaret in the City
of Westminster or of her Assigns. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors
aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the day, year, and at the Place abovesaid

Jno: Feary< no role > Coroner

Charles Drew< no role > Foreman