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 Second
Day of Decemberin the SixthYear 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 Mary Buck< no role > , then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Martin< no role > Robert Hopwood< no role > , Samuel Blanch< no role > John Bennet< no role > , William Duncan< no role > , George Johnson< no role > , Edward Jones< no role > ,
John Mackay< no role > , William Ball< no role > , John Draper< no role > , Philip Bartlet< no role > , Thomas Little< no role > , Robert Wright< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role >
Cornelius Martin< no role > and John Funt< 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 Mary Buck< no role > come to her Death, do upon their Oath
say, That on the thirtieth day of November in the Year aforesaid, on William Jackson< no role > a Laborer, being
gently and carefully driving of a certain Brewers Dray, loaded with Beer and drawn by three Horses,
in a Brewers Yard Situate in Knave's Acre in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
and being on the Near side of his Horses with a Rope called the leader in his Hand, And the said Mary Buck< no role >
then and there Walking up the said Brewers Yard and being on the offside of the said Dray and unseen
by the said William Jackson< no role > , It so happened that the fore Blank of the said Dray Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune prest to and against the Rightside of her the said Mary Buck< no role > , and by the force and Violence
thereof jambed her the said Mary Buck< no role > between the said Fore Plank of the said Dray and a Post then and there
fixt in the Ground, by Means whereof she the said Mary Buck< no role > did then and there receive on Mortal
Fracture in and upon her Right Arm, and also one Mortal Bruise in and upon her Right side of which said
mortal Fracture and mortal Bruise she the said Mary Buck< no role > then and upon there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Mary Buck< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune came to her Death, and not otherwise
And that the said Fore Plank of the said Dray was moving to the Death of the said Mary Buck< no role > , and
is of the Value of five Shillings, and the Property and in the Possession of Thomas Starkey< no role > and
John Starkey< no role > of the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County Brewers, or of their Assigns,
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Martin< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and 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

Jos Martin< no role > [mark] Foreman