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

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord King,
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of June
in the 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of John Clarke< no role >
then and their lying Dead upon the Oath of Thomas Smith< no role > Thomas Webb< no role > , Alexander
Blake< no role > , George Barland< no role > , William Payn< no role > , Thomas Moon< no role > , Samuel Platt< no role > , Edward Langbridge< no role >
Thomas Clapton< no role > , Thomas Beven< no role > , Richard Cook< no role > , Thomas Wild< no role > , William Morris< no role >
and Alexander Grant< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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 Clarke< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the
Twenty first day of June in the Year aforesaid, the said John Clarke< no role > a Labourer being at Work
on a Building belonging to John Damer< no role > Esquire, situate in Dean Street in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, It so happened that the said John Clarke< no role >
in going over a Board lying across the said Building Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell from the said Board unto the Ground, By means whereof the said John Clarke< no role > then and there
by the fall aforesaid received one Mortal Bruise upon the fore part of the Head of him the said
John Clarke< no role > , of which said Mortal Bruise he the said John Clarke< no role > then and there Died: And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Clarke< no role > Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Smith< no role >
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 Year and Place first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Thos. Smith< no role > For Man