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 third day of June in the Eighth 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
Martha Slade< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Bell< no role > , Richard Richis< no role > , John Betts< no role > , Peter Jones< no role > , Thomas Moses< no role > , Charles Thomas< no role > ,
John Cranston< no role > , Edward James< no role > , Joseph Fawcett< no role > , Henry Wilson< no role > , Richard
Sherlock< no role > and Robert Bramham< 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 Mean s the said Martha Slade< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That a Man to the Jurors aforesaid unknown
on the Eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid, being driwing a certain
Post Chaise drawn by four Horses in the Publick Road or Highway leading
towards Westminster Bridge in the Parish of St. Mary Lambeth in the County
of Surry, And that the said Martha Slade< no role > being then and there crossing the said
Road from the Asylum to the Bunhouse, it so happened that the said Martha
Slade< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down in the said Road, near
unto the Horses drawing the said Post Chaise, and that the haft Horse on the
Off side in the said Chaise then and there with one of his hinder feet, the said
Martha Slade< no role > in and upon her left Leg did kick and Strike, By means whereof she
the said Martha Slade< no role > did then and there accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive
one mortal Fracture in and when her left Leg, of which said Mortal Fracture
She the said Martha Slade< no role > from the said Eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid
until the Twenty second day of June in the same Year at the Westminster Hospital in
the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live, on which said Twenty second day of June in the Year aforesaid
at the Hospital aforesaid she the said Martha Slade< no role > of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Martha Slade< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in manner and by the
Means aforesaid came to her Death and not otherwise. And that the said Horse moved
to the Death of he said Martha Slade< no role > , and is the Property of a Person to the Jurors aforesaid
as yet unknown. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
William Bell< 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

Wm Bell< no role > Foreman