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 Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteenth day of
Decemberin the Seventh 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 Samuel Samagasgall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Wilson< no role > Robert
Bramham< no role > , Abraham Ferry< no role > , Joseph Baylis< no role > , George Gunnery< no role > , John Lane< no role > , Henry
Callis< no role > , Matthew Walker< no role > , Francis Russell< no role > , John Martin< no role > , James Wood< no role > , Thomas
Weeler< no role > , ad William Green< 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 Samuel Smagasgallcame to his Death do upon their Oath saith
that the said Samuel Smagasgall Bricklayer's Laborer, on the Twenty eighth day of November in the
year aforesaid, being at Work at a certain House or other Building belonging to the most noble George
Duke of Montague< no role > , situate on Black Heath in the County of Kent , standing upon a Scaffold erected
against the said Building, It is happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said Scafford
broke, and that the said Samuel Samgesgall then and there fell down to the ground, by means whereby
the said Samuel Smagasgall did then and there receive a violent Concussion in and upon his Brain, of
which said Violent Concussion he the said Samuel Smagasgall from the said Twenty eighth day of November in
the Year aforesaid, until the Twelfth day of December in the same Year, at the Westminster Hospital situate in the
said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Lliberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live
on which said Twelfth day of December in the Year aforesaid, he the said Samuel Smagesgall at the Hospital
aforesaid of the Violent Concussion aforesaid, did due, and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Samuel Smagesgall 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 John Wilson< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf on 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 .

John Wilson< no role > Foreman,