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. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of January in the Twelfth 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 Rice< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Brook< no role > ,
John Child< no role > , William Coffield< no role > , Richard Lane< no role > , John Vallar< no role > , Nathaniel Drake< no role > ,
Thomas Renison< no role > , Edward Dunn< no role > , Thomas Carey< no role > , Joseph Phillips< no role > , Michael Fields< no role > ,
Richard Catling< no role > and Lawrence Price< 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 Thomas Rice< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Rice< no role > a Laborer, being
at Work in the Browhouse of John Phillips< no role > a Brewer in the Parish of Saint
John the Evangelist within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Second day
of December in the Year aforesaid, and being then and there Pumping some
Boiling Amber Wort out of the Jack back into a large Cooler, which was almost
full, It so happened that the said Thomas Rice< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by misfortune fell into the said Boiling Wort in the said Cooler,
whereby the said Thomas Rice< no role > was then and there very much sealded and
Burnt, of Which said Sealding the said Thomas Rice< no role > from the said Second day
of December in the Year aforesaid until the Thirty first day of the same Month
and Year, at the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Thirty first
day of December aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Margaret, he the said
Thomas Rice< no role > of the violent Sealding aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Rice< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune came to is Death, and not otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Brook< 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 > [mark] Coroner
Thos Brook [mark] Foreman