City & 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. John the Evangelist 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 Twentieth Day of August in 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
James Grace< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Paul
Wilson< no role > , Thomas Hook< no role > , James Horsman< no role > , George Whitrow< no role > , James Brown< no role > ,
William Exford< no role > , John Mills< no role > , Francis Norris< no role > , Harry Loader< no role > , Richard
Priest< no role > , Isaac Taylor< no role > & John Buckley< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said James Grace< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Grace< no role > on the Eighteenth day
of August in the Year aforesaid being driving an empty Cart in a certain
Street or Highway called Peter Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there turning the Corner
of the said Street into St. Ann's Lane , It so happened that the said James
Grace< no role > then and there went between the said Cart and a certain Post fixt
in the Ground at the Corner of the said Lane, and by Means whereof he
the said James Grace< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune was then
and there jambed in between the said Post and some part of the said Cart
whereby the said James Grace< no role > did then andthere receive divers mortal
Bruises in and upon the sides and Belly of him the said James Grace< no role > , of
which said mortal Business he the said James Grace< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said James Grace< 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 Paul
Wilson< 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

Paul Wilson< no role > Foreman