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 Fifteenth 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
Mary Readhead< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Gibbard< no role > , James Grant< no role > , James Don< no role > , Joseph Greave< no role > , Walter Parks< no role > , George Friswell< no role > ,
John Martin< no role > , Edward James< no role > , William Thomas< no role > , Owen Hudson< no role > , Robert
Chisholm< no role > , and Francis Brooke< 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 Mary Readhead< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Fifth day of January in the Year
by three Horses in Whitehall in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and that the said Mary Readhead being then and there
crossing the said Street from Privy Garden to the Treasury It so happened
that the said Mary Readhead fell down, and that the Off Wheel of the said Cart,
so drawn as aforesaid, did then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune pass over the said Mary Readhead, by means whereof she the
said Mary Readhead did then and there receive one mortal Wound in and upon
her left Leg, a Fracture of her left Hand, and divers Bruises in her Body, of
which said mortal Wound Fracture and Bruises she the said Mary Readhead from
the said Fifth day of January in the Year aforesaid until the Fourteenth
day of the same Month and Year, at the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty
and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, On which said
Fourteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the City
Liberty and County aforesaid, she the said Mary Readhead, of the mortal
Wound Fracture and Bruises aforesaid, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Mary Readhead in manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her
Death, and not otherwise, And that the said Off Wheel of the said Cart so drawn
as aforesaid, was moving to the Death of the said Mary Readhead, and is of the value of
five Shillings, and the Property and in the Possession of Mr. Wilkinson of Channel-
Row in the Parish aforesaid Dealer in beals, or of her Assigns. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Gibbard< no role > Freeman 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
Willm Gibbard< no role > Foreman