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

An Inquisicion 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 Third day of August 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 Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Powell< no role >
Jobias Williams< no role > , Thomas Spiares< no role > , James Barrat< no role > , Charles Simmons< no role > , William Carpandar< no role >
Charles Wilson< no role > , Francis Bramley< no role > , John Hand< no role > , Thomas Sandarson< no role > , William Hayslay< no role > , Edward
Bradshaw< no role > , Thomas Youngman< no role > , Richard Parker< no role > , John Hume< no role > , George Clow< no role > , and William Tripp< 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 Taylor< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Taylor< no role > on the first day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid being in
the Gutter of the Garretts belonging to the dwelling House of James Carter< no role > situate in
Hedge Lane in the said Parish Liberty and County Repairing the Filing of the said House
it so happended that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said Thomas Taylor< no role >
then and there fell from the said Gutter into the Street by Means whereof he the said
Thomas Taylor< no role > Received a Violent and Mortal Wound Fracture and Concussion on the
head of him the said Thomas Taylor< no role > of which said Violent and Mortal Wound Fracture
and Concussion he the said Thomas Taylor< no role > then and there instantly Died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Taylor< 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 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 at the Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

William Powell [mark] Foreman