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 Saint Margaretin the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County Middlesex , the Fifth
day of October 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 Liberty, on
View of the Body of John Day< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Chisholm< no role > , Richard Curtis< no role > , James Murrey< no role > , John Nutting< no role > , Thomas Waters< no role > , John Palmer< no role > , Joseph Woolford< no role > , Edward
Underwood< no role > , George Field< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Nathaniel Sket< no role > , Gilbert Knifton< no role > Thomas Moss< no role > , John Robins< no role > , Robert
Dunn< no role > , John Atkinson< no role > and Richard Edwards< 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 Day< no role > came to his Death, do upon theirs
Oath say, That the said John Day< no role > on the fourth day of October in the Year aforesaid, being
crossing one End of a certain, Street called Parliament Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the City Liberty and County aforesaid, And that a pair of Bay Horses being at the same
time drawing a Chariot through Bridge Street in the said Parish, and turning the Corner into
Parliament Street aforesaid, It so happened that the off Horse in the said Chariot Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune forced the said John Day< no role > , so crossing the said Street as aforesaid
down to the Ground, and that the said off Horse then and there did tread upon the said John
Day< no role > with one of his forefeet, there by giving to the said John Day< no role > one Mortal Wound on
the right side of his Head, which Fracture the Scull of him the said John Day< no role > , of which
said Mortal Wound and Fracture he the said John Day< no role > then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Day< 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 off Horse was moving to the Death of the said John Day< no role >
and is the Property of a Person to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Chisholm< 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 > [mark] Coroner .
Robt Chisholm< no role > [mark] Forman