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 St. Margaret in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth
Day of Septemberin the Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
by the Grace 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 Richard Clements< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Harkness< no role > , Thomas Apleby< no role > , John Bates< no role > Robert Barber< no role > , John Langue< no role > , James Buckell< no role >
William Jucklin< no role > , David Williams< no role > , Thomas Trumpshaw< no role > , Dennis Cummings< no role > , William Allmond< no role > ,
Samuel Fanset< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role > , Samuel Dewer< no role > , Robert Chamberlain< no role > , Andrew Rogers< no role > , Combes Cocks< no role > Nathaniel Grant< no role >
Henry Houlbrook< no role > , Edward James< no role > and Solomon Morgan< 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 Richard Clements< no role > came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say, That the said Richard Clements< no role > a Carpenter on the third day September in the year
aforesaid being at work upon a certain new Chapel called the Queen's Chapel situate and being at Pimlico
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and
there, with other Workmen, lifting up certain pieces of Timber called Principals, and standing upon the
Gable of the said Chapel, It so happened that a Rope which was fastened to the said Timber Accidentally
Casually andby Misfortune did then and there break, and that one of the said pieces of Timber did
fall upon and against the Right Leg of the said Richard Clements< no role > , by Means whereof he the said Richard Clements< no role >
did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one Mortal Fracture in and upon his
Right Leg, of which said Mortal Fracture he the said Richard Clements< no role > for the said Third day of September
in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the same Month in the same year, at the Westminster Hospital
situate and being in the Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live, on which said Twenty ninth day of September in the year aforesaid he the said
Richard Clements< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid, of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid, did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say , that the said Richard Clements< no role >
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Causally and by Misfortune came to his
Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said coroner, as the said
John Harkness< 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 abvoe written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jno. Harkness Foreman