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 Twentieth 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 Baker< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Peter
Gough< no role > , John Chetwin< no role > , John Austin< no role > , Edward Dyer< no role > , William Morris< no role > , James
Pratt< no role > , Samuel Highley< no role > , Richard Robinson< no role > , William Oxford< no role > , Robert
Turnball< no role > , William Ellis< no role > and John Taylor< 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 Baker< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Baker< no role > on the Twenty
fifth day of November in the Year aforesaid being in Mr. John Philips< no role >
Brewhouse situate in Peter Street in the Parish of St. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there
standing upon the Mash Tun Stage near unto a certain Mill Stone
which was reared upon its Edge, It so happened that the said
Mill Stone Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down upon the
right Leg of the said John Baker< no role > , by Means whereof the said John Baker< no role >
then and there received one mortal Fracture in and upon his Right
Leg, of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Baker< no role > from the
said Twenty fifth day of November aforesaid until the Eighteenth day of
December in the same Year at the said Parish of Saint Margaret in
the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did
live, on which said Eighteenth day of December aforesaid at the said Parish
of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said John
Baker< no role > of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Baker< 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 Peter Gough< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of
himself and the rest of the his Fellows, in their presence, have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Peter Gough< no role >
Foreman}