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 Twenty fifth 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
John Foster< no role > Gentleman then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Gardner< no role > , Abraham Longstaff< no role > , William Crocket< no role > , Lewis Lubree< no role > , William
Jackson< no role > , Alexander Gordon< no role > , John Finlayson< no role > , Philip Poole< no role > , John Cooknall< no role >
John Lomus< no role > , Garrand Tool< no role > , John Ellis< no role > , Joseph Bambrick< no role > , Yowell Honor< no role > ,
Thomas Spencer< no role > and Charles Keary< 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 John Foster< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Foster< no role > on the Twenty fourth
day of August in the Year aforesaid being Riding on a certain brown Horse
in the Road or Publick Highway at Pinlics in the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being
then and there Intoxicated and in Liquor, It so happened that the said
John Foster< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell off and from the said Horse unto the Ground, by Means whereof
he the said John Foster< no role > did then and there receive a violent Concession
in and upon the Brain of him the said John Foster< no role > , of which said violent
Concussion he the said John Foster< no role > from the said Twenty fourth day of
August in the Year aforesaid, until the Twenty fifth day of the same
Month and 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 Twenty Fifth day of August in the
Year aforesaid, he the said John Foster< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid, of the
violent Concussion aforesaid, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Foster< 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 John Gardner< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Gardner< no role > Foreman