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 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 Second day of October 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
Jonas Leader< no role > a Bricklayer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Ivison< no role > Michael Caument< no role > , Francis Abey< no role > , John Mc. Donnald< no role > , Jacob
Sandreck< no role > , Henry Slack< no role > , Edward Elston< no role > , William Minsies< no role > , William Shields< no role > , Joseph
Bishop< no role > , Ambrose Bradbury< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Peter Hall< no role > , Charles Thierchen< no role > , George Clark< no role > , Achan
Potterton< no role > , George Wright< no role > and Thomas Mathews< 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 Jonas Leader came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jonas Leader on the Thirtieth day
of September in the Year aforesaid being at Work upon a Newbuilt House
situate in or near to new Norfolk Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there standing upon a Scaffold
on the inside of the said House, It so happened that the said Jonas Leader
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from
the said Scaffold unto the Ground, by Means whereof the said
Jonas Leader did then and there receive one mortal Fracture in
and upon the back part of his Head, of which said mortal Fracture
he the said Jonas Leader then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Jonas
Leader, 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
Ivison< 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

John Ivison< no role > Foreman