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 County of Middlesex , the Twenty
ninth 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 an
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 Kirkby< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the
Oath of Lewis Sulsh< no role > , William Bond< no role > , William Luckley< no role > , John Blatch< no role > This name instance is in set 1847. Henry Norris< no role > , John Burchett< no role > , Thomas Hester< no role > ,
John Walden< no role > , William Pepper< no role > , John Morrison< no role > , John Elbrough< no role > , Henry Peake< no role > , John Hales< no role > , Jabez Price< no role > , John
Mills< no role > , William Smith< no role > and Thomas Stanley< no role > good and lawful Men of the Said Liberty duly
Chosen who being then and those duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when
how, and by what Means the said John Kirby< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath
say. That the said John Kirkby the Infant on the Eighteenth day of December in the Year aforesaid
being at Play with other Boys in a long Gallery within a certain Stable Yard situate in Park
Street in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said John Kirkby< no role > did then and there fall our
of an from the said Gallery upon the Stone Pavement in the said Stable Yard, by Means whereof
the said John Kirkby< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually and [..] Misfortune receive one
mortal Fracture, extending from, the Forehead to the hinder part of the Head of him the said John
Kirkby< no role > , of which said mortal Fracture he the said John Kirkby< no role > , from the said Eighteenth day of December
in the Year aforesaid, until the Nine and twentieth day of the same Month in the same Year, at the
Westminster Hospital situate and being in the Parish. City Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish
and languishing did live, on which said Twenty ninth day of December in the Year aforesaid he the
said John Kirkby< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid within the Parish City Liberty and County aforesaid
of the mortal Fracture aforesaid, did die, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said John Kirkby< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid, came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said Lewis Sulsh< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals, the Day Yar and Place first above written

Thos Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Lewis Sulsh< no role > Foreman