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 Fourteenth day of February 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
Leyton Clarke< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Francis Tudor< no role > ,
Peter Paul< no role > , John Garnham< no role > , William Challoner< no role > , John Coats< no role > , James Denavatt< no role > , Hugh Davis< no role >
Thomas Massey< no role > , Joseph Withers< no role > , Robert Browning< no role > , Robert Carter< no role > , Daniel Woodward< no role > , George
Hutchinson< no role > , Henry Renshaw< no role > and William Hook< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Leyton Clarke came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Leyton Clarke on the Twelfth
day of February in the Year aforesaid, being upon the Stairs in Covent-
-Garden Playhouse in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, It so happened that the said Leyton Clarke then and there
Accidentally Casually and by misfortune fell backwards of and from
the said Stairs into the Passage leading to the Pitt in the said House, by
means of which said fall he the said Leyton Clarke 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 Leyton Clarke on the said
Twelfth day of February in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Leyton Clarke 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 Francis Tudor< 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
F. TudorForeman