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 Twentieth day of May 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,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
John King< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Elwell< no role > , David Spiers< no role > , Edward Brion< no role > , William Pern< no role > , Flank Rochford< no role > , Hugh
Burredge< no role > , John Demay< no role > , David Medcalf< no role > , Joseph Pearson< no role > , John Hunt< no role > .
Dennis Deschamps< no role > , William Ward< no role > Thomas Harris< no role > , Edward Brown< no role > , James
Hopwood< no role > , James Micklejohn< no role > and Edward Jackson< 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 John King< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John King< no role > on the Sixteenth day
of May in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Court called Ryder's Court
in the Parish of Saint Ann within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and
being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened that the
said John King< no role > then and there Casually and by Misfortune and against
the Will of Edward Sharpe< no role > fell down in the said Court, by Means whereof
the said John King< no role > then and there received one mortal Fracture in and
upon the left side of his Head, of which said mortal Fracture he the
said John King< no role > from the said sixteenth day of May in the Year
aforesaid until the Eighteenth day of the same Month and Year, at
the said Parish of St. Ann , and also at the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live, on which said Eighteenth day of May aforesaid
he the said John King< no role > at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, of the mortal Fracture aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said John King< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Casually
by Misfortune and against the Will of the said Edward Sharpe< no role > came to his
Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said John Elwell< 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
Jno. Elwell< no role > Foreman