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 the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of June 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
William Davidson< no role > then and there laying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Lamb< no role > ,
Joseph Allen< no role > Thomas Scott< no role > , George Eyre< no role > , Robert Perryman< no role > Richard
Sherlock< no role > , George Worthy< no role > Edward Deacon< no role > , Thomas Spencer< no role > , William Bussy< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. ; William
Ketley< no role > , Frederick Duperray< no role > and John Burgess< 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 William Davidson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Davidson< no role > a Laborer on
the Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid being at Work with
and standing near unto Robert Young< no role > a Pavior in Newtoner's Lane in
the Parish of St. Gyles in the County aforesaid, And the said Robert Young< no role >
being then and there with a Sledge Hammer breaking a certain large Stone
for the purpose of Paving therewith, It so happened, that, Casually and
by Misfortune and against the Will of the said Robert Young< no role > , a piece of the
said Stone flew against the Right Eye of the said William Davidson< no role > , by
Means whereof the said William Davidson< no role > then and there received a mortal Wound
in and upon his Right Eye, of which said mortal Wound he the said William
Davidson< no role > from the said Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid until
the Sixth day of June in the same year, at the said Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did
live, on which said Sixth day of June in the year aforesaid, he the said
William Davidson< no role > at the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, of the mortal Wound aforesaid, Casually by Misfortune
and against the will of the said Robert Young< no role > , came to his death, and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said Thomas Lamb< 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

Thos. Lamb< no role > Foreman