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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of December in the Thirteenth 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,
Corner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Thomas Rowles< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Samuel
Norgrave< no role > , Peter Duthie< no role > , Benjamin Brown< no role > , Absolom Lee< no role > , Daniel Wood< no role > ,
Thomas Farran< no role > , Thomas Booth< no role > , Thomas Hawkes< no role > , Laurence Nowland< no role > ,
Simon Vanderbergh< no role > , Henry Rynold< no role > , John Nicolson< no role > , John Laffontaine< no role > ,
Richard Gardener< no role > and Peter Graham< 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 Rowles< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Rowles< no role > on the Sixth
day of December in the Year aforesaid, being Intoxicated and in Liquor,
at his Lodgings in the Dwelling House of Thomas Charlton< no role > situate in
Ham Yard in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
and then and there coming down Stairs in the dark, to open the Street
Door and to let in Mary< no role > the Wife of the said Thomas Charlton< no role > , and being
so Intoxicated with Liquor, It happened that the said Thomas Rowles< no role >
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down the said Stairs unto
the bottom thereof, and was then and there Suffocated and Strangled,
of which said Suffocation and Strangling he the said Thomas Rowles< no role > than
and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Thomas Rowles< 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 Samuel Norgrave< 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

Saml: Norgrave< no role > Foreman