City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day of May 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
Thomas English< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Noble< no role > , John Ellis< no role > , Joseph Skinner< no role > , James Chisholm< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > , Thomas
Fidgon< no role > , William Pursell< no role > , Thomas George< no role > , John Emerson< no role > , William Iles< no role > ,
Richard Strange< no role > and Silvester Freeman< no role > Good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
Chosen, whe being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Thomas English< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas English< no role > on the Twenty
eighth day of April in the Year aforesaid being running along the Street
behind St. Clements Church in the Parish of St. Clement Danes within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and the Door of the Coal bellar of Joseph
Walker< no role > Dealer in Coals situate in the said Street being then open, It so happened
that the said Thomas English< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell out of the said Street into the said Coal bellar, and thereby did
then and there receive a mortal Concussion in and upon the Brain of him
the said Thomas English< no role > , of which said Mortal Concussion he the said Thomas
English< no role > from the said Twenty eighth day of April in the Year aforesaid until
the Eighth day of May in the same Year, at the said Parish of St. Clement Danes
and also at the said Parish of St. Margaret , within the [..]
aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Eighth day
of May in the Year aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Margaret, he the said
Thomas English< no role > of the mortal Concussion aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas English< 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 John Noble< 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
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
John Noble< no role > Foreman