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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth Day of August 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
Hector Mc. Pherson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Orteel< no role >
James Barber< no role > , Benjamin Hinton< no role > , Nathaniel Tebbs< no role > , John Stears< no role > , Robert Jackson< no role > , John Densey< no role >
William Marsellus< no role > , Peter Corner< no role > , Robert Collier< no role > , William Ross< no role > , Jacob Hipp< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William Russell< no role > , Joseph
Cook< no role > and Francis Thompson< 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 Hector Mc. Pherson came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said Hector Mc. Pherson on the Sixteenth day of
August in the Year aforesaid being employed to Dig in same Old Ruins near the Adelphi Street
in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, it so happened that while he was so digging a Stack
of an Old Chimney and part of some Old Flooring then and there accidentally casually and by
Misfortune fell down by means whereof he the said Hector Mc. Pherson under the Ruins and
Materials thereof was Suffocated and Killed of which said Suffocation and Killing to the said
Hector Me. Pherson then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid on their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Hector Mc. Pherson 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 Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jo Ortus< no role > Foreman