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 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 Eighteenth day of April in the Eleventh 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 Glover< no role > a Labourer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Charles
Gowyn< no role > , Richard Peachey< no role > , Thomas Cross< no role > , Thomas Bain< no role > , Nathaniel Gooding< no role > , John
Mazzinghi< no role > , Anthony Haynes< no role > , Samuel Branch< no role > , William Liddell< no role > , Richard Franklin< no role > ,
Daniel Machell< no role > and Richard Burton< 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 William Glover< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Glover< no role > on the Thirteenth
day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, being employed to unload a certain Dray, then and there loaded with
three Butler of strong Beer, It so happened that in striking and unloading the
first of the said three Pipes, accidentally casually and by misfortune the said
first Butt, for want of Judgment in him the said William Glover< no role > , forceably rolled
off and from the said Dray, to and against the Person of him the said William Glover< no role > ,
and by the Force and Weight thereof did then and there throw him the said
William Glover< no role > to the Ground, and that the said first Butt did then and there
roll upon the Breast and Belly of him the said William Glover< no role > , by Means
whereof he the said William Glover< no role > then and there received divers mortal Bruises
in and upon the Breast and Belly of him the said William Glover< no role > , of which
said mortal Bruises he the said William Glover< no role > from the said thirteenth day of
April in the Year aforesaid until the Sixteenth day of the same Month and Year
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and
languishing did live, on which said Sixteenth day of April aforesaid, at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said William Glover< no role >
of the Mortal Bruises aforesaid, did dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said William Glover< 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 Charles Gowyn 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

C. Gowyn Foreman