City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Intended, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of November in the Ninth 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
Alexander Mc. Cloughlin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Grant< no role > , John Malpas< no role > , William Fisher< no role > , Adolph Hommill< no role > , James Wyke< no role > , John
Bennett< no role > , John Bird< no role > , Robert Desborow< no role > , Daniel Davis< no role > , Thomas Ralph< no role > , John
Fellows< no role > , John Carver< no role > and Charles Swinden< 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 Alexander Mc. Cloughlin< no role > came to
h is- Death, do upon their Oath say That a Man whose Name is unknown on the
Fifteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid (between the Hours of Eleven
and twelve at Night) being driving a certain Hackney Coach drawn by
two Horses in Gerrard Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, And the said Alexander Mc. Cloughlin< no role > being then walking along and
crossing the said Street, It so happened that the said Alexander Mc. Cloughlin,
was then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune forced down to the
Ground in the said Street, and that the Fore Wheel of the said Coach on the Offside
passed over the Head of him the said Alexander Mc. Cloughlin, so lying upon the
Ground as aforesaid, by Means whereof he the said Alexander Mc. Cloughlin< no role >
did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive divers mortal
Wounds and Bruises in and upon the left side of the Head of him the said Alexander
Mc. Cloughlin< no role > of which said mortal Wounds and Wri [..] Alexander
Mc. Cloughlin then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Alexander Mc. Cloughlin, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death
and not otherwise. And that the said Fore Wheel of the said Coach so drawn as
aforesaid, was moving to the Death of the said Alexander Mc. Cloughlin and
is of the Value of fifteen Shillings, and the Property of a Person or Persons
to the Jurors aforesaid unknown. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said Richard Grant< 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 Dag Year and Place first
above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Richd. Grant< no role > Foreman