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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth 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
Richard Cathorn< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of David Woodley< no role > ,
James Mathews< no role > , Joseph Charles< no role > , Richard Porter< no role > , John Hales< no role > , Nathaniel Clayton< no role > , Benjamin
Virtu< no role > , Richard Lawrence< no role > , Robert Bramham< no role > , Thomas Bywater< no role > , Edward Hanbury< no role > , Richard
Sherlock< no role > , William Catley< no role > and James Britiff< 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 Richard Cathorn came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Richard Cathorn a Laborer, on
the Thirteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid, being at Work in the
Yard of Thomas Gayfere< no role > a Mason in the Parish of St. John the Evangelist in
the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there with other Laborers
moving some large Blocks of Stone, It so happened that one of the said large
Stones Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell upon the left Leg of the said
Richard Cathorn, and thereby broke and Fractured the said left Leg in two
different places, of which said Fractured the said Richard Cathorn from the
said Thirteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid, until the Sixth day
of January in the same Year, at the said Parish of St. Margaret within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on
which said Sixth day of January aforesaid, the said Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Richard Cathorn of the
mortal Fractures aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Richard Cathorn in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his
Death, and not otherwise. In Witness where of as well the said
Coroner, as the said David Woodley< 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 > Coroner
David Woodley< no role > Foreman