City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square
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 February 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
Edward Miller< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Dixon< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > , Thomas Honour< no role > , Cuthbert Smith< no role > , Thomas Riseing< no role >
Rees Williams< no role > , Richard English< no role > , Stephen Preston< no role > , James Mc Cartney< no role > , Henry
Hassell< no role > , William Deane< no role > and George Lyddell< 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 Edward Miller< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Miller< no role > on the Sixth
day of February in the Year aforesaid, being Shaiting upon a certain
Pond by the said of the Kings Road near Bloody Bridge in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened
that the Ice broke under the said Edward Miller< no role > , and that the said
Edward Miller< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell into the said Pond, and in the Waters thereof was then and
there suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said Edward Miller< no role > than and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Edward Miller< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casully and by Misfortune came to his death,
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said John Dixon< 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

John Dixon< no role > Foreman