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 George Hanover Square within
the Liberty ofthe Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth day of August in the Fifth
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 so [..]
Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of
Joseph Barnett< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Edridge< no role >
Michael Jones< no role > , William Hattaway< no role > , William Short< no role > , Esra Eads< no role > , Edward Cook< no role > , Walter William< no role >
George Nelson< no role > , Charles Thirchin< no role > , John Edwards< no role > , Theophilus Brown< no role > and William Towse< no role >
good and lawfull men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there do
sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the Ring when haw, and by what
mean she said Joseph Barnett< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath say, That
on the Twenty seventh day of August in the Year aforesaid, the said Joseph Barnett< no role >
a Bricklayer's labourer , being at work cleaning a Gutter on the top of the dwelling House
of Carew Harvey Mile may Esquire, situate and being in Grosvenor Street in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Joseph Barnett< no role > did then and
there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fall over the Parapet Wall, on the back park of the said
House, being three Stories high) into the Court or Yard behind and adjourning to the said House,
which said Court or Yard was paved with Stone; by means whereof the said Joseph Barnett< no role > then
and there by the fall aforesaid, did receive a mortal Wound in and upon the leftside of the Head of him
the said Joseph Barnett< no role > , of which said mortal Wound he the said Joseph Barnett< no role > then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph
Barnett< no role > , Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, came to
his Death, and not Other wise. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said John
Edridge< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said 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 Edridge< no role > [mark] Foreman