City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Tenth day of
September in the Second 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
Prickard< no role > Gentleman , Coroner of our said Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty, on View of
the Body of John Cane< no role > an Instant then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Samuel
Stockman< no role > , Thomas Hickson< no role > , Thomas Hitchen< no role > , Stephen Blandford< no role > , Walter Pennell< no role >
William Thomas< no role > , Joseph Haisty< no role > , William Burroughs< no role > , William Ward< no role > , John
Norman< no role > , Samuel Young< no role > and David Stodhard< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, 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 John Cane< no role > came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That
on the Ninth day of September in the Year aforesaid the said John Cane< no role > and his two Sisters, being left by
their Mother Christian Cane< no role > , in her Lodging or Apartment in the dwelling House of Mr. Dale, situate
in a certain Court called Charles Court in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and the said John Cane< no role > being at Play near the Window in the said Room or
Apartment fronting on the said Court It so happened that the said John Cane< no role > Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune fell out of and through the said Window, being three Stories high, upon the Stone P [..]
in the said Court called Charles Court , by Means whereof the said John Cane< no role > by the fall aforesaid received
Several Bruises upon his Head and Face, of which said Bruises he the said John Cane< no role > on the same day and
Year died in the Westminster Hospital situate in James Street within the City Liberty and County aforesaid
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Cane< 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 Samuel Stockman< no role > Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of
the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and
Place first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Samuel Stockman [mark] Foreman