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 th Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighteenth day of September 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
George Angws< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Affleck< no role > ,
John Turpin< no role > , Robert Bray< no role > , Thomas Dunn< no role > , George Egerton< no role > , James Don< no role > , William
Hoare< no role > , Nathaniel Clayton< no role > , Edward Thomas< no role > , John Brown< no role > , James Emys< no role > ,
Henry Slade< no role > and Henry Hall< 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 George Angws came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Angws on the Seventeenth
day of September in the Year aforesaid being coming down Stairs in a
certain House situate in Gardeners Lane (wherein the said George Angws
lodged) in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
and being Intoxicated and in Liquor It so happened that the said George
Angws then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down
over the Hand-Rail upon the said Stairs being two Stories high; through the
Well Stair case unto the Ground, and thereby did then and there receive
one mortal Fracture in and upon the back part of his Head, and divers
Bruises in and upon his Body, of which said mortal Fracture and Bruises
he the said George Angws then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said George Angws,
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 James Affleck< 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
James AffleckForeman