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 Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteenth day of January in the Tenth 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 Drake< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Charles
Shepherd< no role > , William Harrison< no role > , William Mickin< no role > , David Dinsman< no role > , Robert Pettit< no role > , John
Probin< no role > William Bartlett< no role > , George Stevens< no role > , Robert Whithead< no role > , Thomas Lawrence< no role > , John
Cook< no role > , Thomas Bartholomew< no role > , William Dibley< no role > , Henry Parker< no role > Richard Ireland< no role > , John
Stewart< no role > , James Garden< no role > and George Brownbridge< 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 Drake< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Drake< no role > on the Tenth
day of January in the Year aforesaid being in a Hackney Coach and
driving from Drury Lane into Hart Street in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there
Intoxicated and in Liquor, It so happened that the said Joseph Drake< no role >
was then and there in the said Coach Suffocated and Strangled, of which
said Suffocation and Strangling he the said Joseph Drake< no role > then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say, that the said Joseph Drake< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
came to his Death, and not otherwise, In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Charles Shephard< 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

Chas Shephard< no role > Foreman