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 Twenty ninth day of January in the Sixth 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 John Murray< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Heard< no role > , Thomas Leff< no role > , Robert Forsyth< no role >
Alexander Brody< no role > , Walter Hughes< no role > , Alexander Stuart< no role > , Robert Sparlin< no role > , William
Rineyson< no role > , Caesar Child< no role > , James Pulsford< no role > , Samuel Firser< no role > , and Richard Worrall< 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 John Murray< no role > Came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That
on the Twenty eighth day of January in the Year aforesaid the said John Murray< no role > a Slater
being at Work on certain New built Stables situate in Swallow Street in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there being upon
a Scaffold on the inside of the said New built Stables, It so happened that
the Board on which the said John Murray< no role > was standing slipped and gave way, and
that the said John Murray< no role > , thereby then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune did fall off and from the said Scaffold unto the Ground, by Means whereof he
the said John Murray< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
receive divers mortal bruises in and upon the Head and Body of him the said John
Murray< no role > , of which said mortal Bruises he the said John Murray< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Murray< 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 William Heard< 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 > Coroner .
W Heard Foreman