City and Liberty of Westmr.
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 Twenty fourth
day of January in the fourth 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 Vincent Cranfield< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Caleb Atkinson< no role > , William Reed< no role > , Richard Keene< no role > , Thomas Dyer< no role > , Timothy Folkstone< no role > , John Tyney Charles
Hilliard< no role > , Thomas Morris< no role > , John Kendall< no role > , Edward Woodcock< no role > , Thomas Ruthwin< no role > , William Towse< no role > , John Evans< no role > ,
Edward Jay< no role > , James Beckett< no role > and Thomas Compton< no role > , good and Lawful 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 Vincent Cranfield< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath say That
the said Vincent Cranfield< no role > a Bricklayers Labourer, on the Twenty third day of
January in the Year aforesaid, being on a Scaffold erected upon the dwelling House of
Peter Sisums< no role > situate in Mount Street , at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Vincent Cranfield then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Scaffold, being three Stories
high, unto the Ground, by Means whereof he the said Vincent Cranfield< no role > , by the fall
aforesaid then and there received a violent Concussion upon the Brain, of which said
violent Concussion he the said Vincent Cranfield then and there instantly Died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Vincent
Cranfield 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 Caleb Alkinson< 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

Caleb Atkinson< no role > [mark] Foreman