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 Eighteenth day of April 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
Robert Murray< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of David
Woodley< no role > , George Franklin< no role > , William Poole< no role > , Richard Robinson< no role > , John Leeson< no role > , William Spinny< no role > ,
Thomas Gladwin< no role > , Richard Porter< no role > , John Hales< no role > , Lewis Sulsh< no role > , William Atwood< no role >
and John Wilson< 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 Robert Murray< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Robert Murray< no role > the Infant, on
the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, being at play with two
of his Brothers in the Backyard and Workshop of William Murray< no role > Father
of the said Robert Murray< no role > , situate in the Broadway in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And part of the Floor of the Necessary-
House or Privy in the said backyard, having been taken up in order to its
being that Night Emptied, It so happened that the said Robert Murray< no role > then
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, fell down through the Floor
into the said Necessary House or Privy, and in the Soil or Ordure therein
contained, was then and there Suffocated and Strangled, of which said
Suffocation and Strangling he the said Robert Murray< no role > when and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Robert Murray< 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 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 > [mark] Coroner
David Woodley< no role > [mark] Foreman