City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to wit

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lording 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 Eighth day of
Januaryin the Seventh year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Thirty [..]
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 Richard Rimmer< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Young< no role > , Richard Delton< no role > , Samuel Jackson< no role > , John Clark< no role > , Robert Gildon< no role > , John Plasdell< no role > , Peter
Dunn< no role > , John Shaw< no role > , THomas Kelley< no role > , Thomas Bennett< no role > , Peter Ball< no role > , John Roundtree< no role > ,
and Simon Stephens< 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 Rimmer< no role > came to his Death, do upon their
Oath say, That the said Richard Rimmer< no role > on the Second day of January in the Year aforesaid, was
driving a Hackney Coach, and being in the Evening of the same Day in a certain Street called
Tower Street , with in the City of London , and going up into the Coach box of the said Coach, It so
happened that the foot of the said Richard Rimmer< no role > slipped, and that he fell to the Ground
by Means whereof he the said Richard Rimmer< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune did
then and there receive one mortal Wound in and upon the Forepart of the Head of the said
Richard Rimmer< no role > , of which said mortal Wound he the said Richard Rimmer< no role > from the said Second
day of January in the Year aforesaid until the Seventh day of the same Month in the same Year
at the Westminster Hospital situate in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventh day of January
in the Year aforesaid he the said Richard Rimmer< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid within the Parish
City Liberty and County aforesaid, of the mortal Wound aforesaid, did die, And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Richard Rimmer< no role > Accidentally Causally
and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said James Young< 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 Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

James Young< no role > Foreman