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. 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 Nineteenth day of September 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 Samuel Sidney< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Carter< no role > , Benjamin Carter< no role > , John
Aukland< no role > , John Steward< no role > , James Frith< no role > , James Sinclear< no role > , John Taylor< no role > ,
Thomas Huestige< no role > , William Hammond< no role > , James Walley< no role > , Robert Knight< no role > , Alexander Purbess< no role >
and Nicholas Preston< no role > , good and lawfull Men of 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 Samuel Sidney< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the
fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, the said Samuel Sidney Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell into an Area belonging to the New built House of Sir
Richard Littleton< no role > situate in a Certain Street called Piccadilly in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, by Means whereof the said Samuel Sidney
did then and there, by the fall aforesaid, receive a Mortal Fracture on the back part of the
Head of him the said Samuel Sidney of which said Mortal Fracture he the said Samuel
Sidney< no role > from the said fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, until the Sixteenth
day of the same Month, and Year,a t the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, in a
certain Hospital called Saint George's Hospital , did languish, and languishing did live;
on which said Sixteenth day of September in the year aforesaid, in the said Hospital, within the
Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Samuel Sidney of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did
dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Samuel Sidney
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 Thomas Carter< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on 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 abovewritten

Thos. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Thos. Carter< no role > [mark] Foreman