City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westmr., within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day
of October 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 Joseph Brockwell< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
John Lowry< no role > , Terence Maguire< no role > , William Butt< no role > , Edward Harris< no role > , Charles Tytop< no role > , William Jackson< no role > , Caleb
Carrington< no role > , Robert Chisholm< no role > , Nicholas Noss< no role > , John Hyde< no role > , John Hendrie< no role > , Thomas Willement< no role > , Henry Doughty< no role >
Charles Taylor< no role > , Robert Barber< no role > , John Doughty< no role > , Solomon Morgan< no role > Thomas Waters< no role > , Joseph Grieve< no role > , William Barnesley< no role >
William Johnson< no role > , William Waite< no role > and Benjamin Holmes< 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 Joseph Brockwell< no role > came to his Death,
do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty ninth day of September in the Year aforesaid the said
Joseph Brockwell< no role > being driving a certain Hackney Coach, drawn by two Horses along St. James
Street, in the Parish of St. James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened the
the said Joseph Brockwell then and there Accidentally, Casually and by Misfortune fell off and
from the Seat or Coach box of the said Coach to and against of the Ground, by Means whereof
the said Joseph Brockwell Ro [..] and there rece [..] Fracture in and upon his
left Leg, near the Ankle, of which said Mortal Fracture he the said Joseph Brockwell< no role > from the said Twenty
ninth day of September in the Year aforesaid until the Seventh day of October in the same Year at the Westminster Hospital did
languish and languishing did live, o [..] which said Seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid, the said
Joseph Brockwell, at the Hospital aforesaid situate in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty
and County aforesaid, of the said Mortal Fracture, did dye. And so the [..] ors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph Brockwell Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid, came to his D [..] th, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said John Lowry< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
Fellows, in their presence, have to the Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Lowry< no role > Foreman