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. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth day of December
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 Andrew Thomas< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Cropley< no role > , John Boon< no role >
Thomas Bannister< no role > , Richard Cole< no role > , John George< no role > , William Orton< no role > , Thomas Towers< no role > , James
Giffard< no role > , George Howson< no role > , Peter Bridge< no role > , William Otridge< no role > , Thomas Morgan< no role > and
William Hyde< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly Chosen
Who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what
Means the said Andrew Thomas< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath say That
the said Andrew Thomas< no role > on the Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid, being in Liquor
and walking along Dover Street in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Andrew Thomas< no role > did then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fall down upon certain Stone Steps leading into an Area in the Front of
and belonging to a Dwelling House situate in the said Street, (the Iron Gate of the said Area being
open) by Means of which said fall he the said Andrew Thomas< no role > then and there received a
violent Concussion in and upon the Brain, of which said violent Concussion he the said Andrew
Thomas< no role > from the said Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of
the same Month in the same Year, at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the
Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth
day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, in
St. George's Hospital there, he the said Andrew Thomas< no role > of the violent Concussion aforesaid, did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Andrew Thomas< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune, came to his Death, and
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Cropley< 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 > [mark] Coroner .

Cropley [mark] Foreman