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 Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of March in the Eight 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 Cane< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Walker< no role > , Thomas Harforth< no role > , Edmund Atkins< no role > , Burt Wade< no role > , Francis Felton< no role > ,
John Prenleloupe< no role > , John Morton< no role > , John Edwards< no role > , William Bowers< no role > , John
Harrison< no role > , Terry Burn< no role > John Whale< no role > , Patrick Bourk< no role > , Amos Green< no role >
and William Elliott< 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 Cane came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Cane on th fifteenth
day of March in the Year aforesaid being in the garret in an old
decayed House situate in Silver court in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the Top of the
said decayed House then and there accidentally casually and by
Misfortune fell in, by Means where of the said John Cane< no role > was then
and there Under the ruins and Materials there of smothered,
suffocated and killed, of which said Smothering Suffocation and Killing
he the said John Cane< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Cane< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally causally and Misfortune
came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
as well the said coroner, as the said John Walker< no role > Foreman of the
Said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in
their Presence, have to his Inquisition set their hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Walker< no role > [mark] Foreman