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. 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 Twenty first 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 s of
Nicholas Bone< no role > , John Dayson< no role > & James Cusack< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Spencer
Draper< no role > , Stephen Kendall< no role > , Thomas Box< no role > , Thomas Dorset< no role > , Francis Milsted< no role > , John Elkins< no role > ,
Josiah Walker< no role > , Ralph Walker< no role > , William Bruge< no role > , Achan Potterton< no role > , Dominicus Negri< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. ,
Richard Morris< no role > , William Cole< no role > , William Swift< no role > , Edward Jones< no role > , Thomas Mazzinghi< no role > , Peter
Vanina< no role > , Henry Basham< no role > , and Richard Barnet< 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 Nicholas Bone< no role > John Dayson< no role > , & James Cusack< no role > come to
he r Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Nicholas Bone< no role > , John Dayson< no role > and
James Cusack, Laborers, on the Nineteenth day of November in the Year
aforesaid, being at work in a certain New built House situate on Hay Hill,
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so
happened that the Cross or Flank Brick Wall in the said House, being four
Stories high, then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell down, by Means whereof they the said Nicholas Bone< no role > , John Dayson< no role >
and James Cusack under the Ruins and Materials thereof were
severally Suffocated and killed, of which said Suffocation and killing
they the said Nicholas Bone John Dayson< no role > and James Cusack then and
there severally died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Nicholas Bone [..]
James Cusack, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune severally come to their Death, and not
otherwise. And that the said Materials of the said Wall did occasion the
Death of the said Nicholas Bone John Dayson< no role > and James Cusack and are
of the Value of Twenty Shillings, and the Property and in the Possession
of Edward Gray< no role > of the said Parish and County Builder or of his Assigns.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Spencer
Draper< 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

Spencer Draper< no role > Foreman