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 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 Eighth day of June 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
Joseph Jacob< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Evan
Davis< no role > , Thomas Leppenwell< no role > , William Hepburn< no role > , George Newton< no role > , John Storr< no role > , John
Jackson< no role > , Stephen Gouge< no role > , John Book< no role > , James Mason< no role > , Samuel Mitchell< no role > ,
William Bennet< no role > and Jeremiah Toole< 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 Joseph Jacob< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Jacob< no role > on the Seventh day
of May in the year aforesaid being in the Stable of Philip Fonnereau< no role >
Esquire situate in the Stable Yard in Queen Square in the Parish aforesaid
within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there going
to Oil the Hooss of a certain Bay Mare, It so happened that the said Bay
Mare with both her hinder feet the said Joseph Jacob< no role > in and upon his Head
did several times kick and strike, by Means whereof the said Joseph Jacob< no role >
did then and there Accidentally casually and by Misfortune receive one
mortal wound and Fracture upon the top or Crown of the Head of him the
said Joseph Jocob, of which said mortal wound and Fracture he the said
Joseph Jocob from the said [..] of may in the [..]
the Seventh day of June in the same Year at the Parish and in the City Liberty
and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did her, on which said
seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid he the said
Joseph Jacob< no role > of the mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid did die. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Joseph Jacob< no role > in
Manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by misfortune
came to his Death, and not otherwise, and that the said Bay Mare moved to the
death of the said Joseph Jacob< no role > , and is of the Value of Five Rounds, and the property
and in the Possession of Philip Fonnereau of Queen Square in the said Parish of
St. Margaret Westminster Esquire, or of his assigns. In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner, as the said Evan Davies< 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 .

Evan Davis< no role > [mark] Foreman