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 St. John the Evangelist 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 May 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
William Dicey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward
Padget< no role > , Peter Dunbabin< no role > , John Scott< no role > , John Hewson< no role > , Thomas Brookes< no role > ,
William Jewett< no role > , Thomas Blower< no role > , William Franklin< no role > , Emanuel Lloyd< no role > ,
Robert Watson< no role > , William Campbell< no role > , Thomas Blackmore< no role > , James Williamson< no role >
Abraham Apleton< no role > and Robert Smith< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said William Dicey< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Dicey< no role > (suspected to have
been Poisoned) on the Eleventh day of May in the Year aforesaid, being at a
Necessary-house or Privy, in Peter Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, and there violently loughing and Reaching,
It so happened that a Blood Vessel in the Head of the said William Dicey< no role > , by
such loughing and Reaching, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune did
then and there Burst, by Reason whereof the said William Dicey< no role > then and
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said William Dicey< no role > , 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
Edward Padget Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf 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

Edwd Padget< no role > [mark] Foreman