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 St. James
Within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of December in the Fourteenth 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 Stockman< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Wingfield< no role > , William Hocker< no role > , Robert Martindall< no role > , John Fenton< no role > , Thomas Hemmins< no role > , Richard
Warrer< no role > , William Price< no role > , William Insley< no role > , Giles Spicer< no role > , John Grummant< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role >
William Lilly< no role > , Henry Whaland< no role > , Thomas Broadstock< no role > , Henry Clark< no role > , Robert Taylor< no role > , John Ford< no role >
Benjamin Cole< no role > , John Tickner< no role > and John Cole< 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 Stockman< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Stockman< no role > Aged Seventy
four Years, being weak and infirm, and on the said Sixteenth
day of December in the Year aforesaid going into the Yard
adjoining to the dwelling House of the said John Stockman< no role > situate
and being in Sherrard Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said
John Stockman< no role > in going out at the Back door, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell down into a certain Water Tub
in the said Yard near unto the Back Door, and in the Water
in the said Tub was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of
which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Stockman< no role > then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say, That the said John Stockman< 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 James Wingfield< 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

Jams. Wingfield< no role > Foreman