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 eighth 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 Hutchinson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Kettlewell< no role > , Thomas Hitchins< no role > , John Granger< no role > , Samuel Kemp< no role > , John
Atkins< no role > , Thomas Wilcox< no role > , George Tulloch< no role > , Thomas Clerk< no role > , Thomas
Walker< no role > , Abraham Terry< no role > , John Stone< no role > , and John Griffiths< 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 Hutchinson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Hutchinson< no role > a Bricklayer's
Labourer on the Sixth day of August in the Year aforesaid, being at Work on
a new Building at the Queen's House, situate in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square , within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there
running after and pursuing a Rat underneath a large Scaffold, where the
Bricklayers Worked, on which a great Quantity of Bricks were laid, It so
happened that some of the Bricks then and there Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell off and from the said Scoffold upon the Head of him the
said John Hutchinson< no role > , so being underneath as aforesaid, by Means whereof
the said John Hutchinson< no role > did then and there receive one mortal Fracture in
and upon the back part of his Head, of which said mortal Fracture he the said
John Hutchinson< no role > from the said Sixth day of August in the Year aforesaid, until
the Twenty Seventh day of the Month and Year at the Westminster Hospital
situate and being in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said
Twenty seventh day of August in the Year aforesaid, he the said John Hutchinson< no role >
at the Hospital aforesaid , of the mortal Fracture aforesaid, did die. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Hutchinson< 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 Joseph Kettlewell< 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

Josh: KettlewellForeman