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 Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth 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 and Liberty, on View of the Body of Thomas Watson< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Mealy< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , Richard Rawlins< no role > Richard Bates< no role > ,
Edward Winwood< no role > , Andrew Christy< no role > , John Casting< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Philip Owen< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > , James Blake< no role > , John Cochran< no role > ,
Caleb Smith< no role > , Thomas Standish< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Mayne< no role > , Thomas Simson< no role > , Thomas Doswell< no role > , Wm. Nanson< no role > , John Brodstock< no role > and John Hill< 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
Thomas Watson< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the fifth day of October
in the Year aforesaid the said Thomas Watson< no role > a Bricklayer being working at a certain House
belonging to Mr. Garnier, situate in Jermyn Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and that the said Thomas Watson< no role > was then and there Walking upon a
certain Board on the Outside of the said House, on which the Workmen used to walk, being
four Stories high, It so happened that the said Board, on which the said Thomas Watson< no role > stood,
shipped and the Brick Work which supported the same giving way the said Thomas Watson< no role > that
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down into a Back Yard belonging to the House
adjoyning Westward, in the Occupation of James Stephens< no role > Surgeon, by Means whereof the said Thomas
Watson< no role > did then and there, by the fall aforesaid, receive divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head
and Body of him the said Thomas Watson< no role > , of which said Mortal Bruises he the said Thomas Watson< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Thomas Watson< 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 John Mealy 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 .
John Mealy< no role > [mark] Foreman