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 George Hanover Square
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
Owen Leonard< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard Terry< no role >
Alexander Kilgour< no role > , Richard Goodwin< no role > , John Macdonald< no role > , Charles Amaury< no role > , John Hughes< no role > ,
John Sulton< no role > , John Munday< no role > , James Long< no role > , Lachlan Sinclair< no role > , William Warrock< no role > and George
Clemson< 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 Owen Leonard came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say

That the said Owen Leonard on the Thirtieth day of July
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of St. James in the Liberty and County aforesaid going under a Scaffold
erected on the back Stair Case in the Dwelling House of Lord Donegall situate in St. James's Square in the
Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, it so happened that he the said Owen Leonard Accidentally casually
and by Misfortune slipped and fell from the said Scaffold on the Stone Steps on the Second Landing Place
of the said Stair Case by means whereof he the said Owen Leonard did then and there receive a Violent
and Mortal Bruise Wound and Fracture on the head of him the said Owen Leonard of which said violent
and Mortal Bruise wound and Fracture he the said Owen Leonard from the said Thirtieth day of July
in the Year aforesaid until the first day of August in the Same Year at the Parish aforesaid to wit in St.
George's Hospital did languish and languishing did Live on which said first day of August in the Year
aforesaid he the said Owen Leonard in the said Hospital of the Mortal Bruise Wound and Fracture aforesaid did
Die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say tha the said Owen Leonard 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
Richd Terey< no role > [mark] Foman