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

In Inquisition 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 June 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
Zephaniah Collins< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Knowles< no role > , James Norris< no role > , Joseph Lane< no role > , James Moor< no role > , John Carr< no role > , Thomas Hastings< no role > ,
William Stag< no role > , James Watkins< no role > , Henry Alvey< no role > , James Johnson< no role > , John Lloyd< no role >
and John Mitchell< 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 Zephaniah Collins came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Zephaniah Collins on the Fifth
day of June in the Year aforesaid walking in the Kings Highway at North End
in the Parish of Kensington in the County aforesaid, and being then and there
Intoxicated with Liquor, fell down in the said Highway, And that a Man being
the carefully driving a certain Chariot drawn by two Horses in the said
Highway It so happened that the Off Wheel of the said Chariot Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune passed over the Head and Body of the said
Zephaniah Collins, by Means whereof the said Zephaniah Collins then
and there received divers Bruises in and upon his Head and Body, of which said
Bruises he the said Zephaniah Collins from the said fifth day of June in the Year
aforesaid until the Sixth [..] of the same Month and Year, at the said Parish
of Kensington and also at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the Liberty
and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which
said Sixth day of June aforesaid, at the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid he the said Zephaniah
Collins of the mortal Bruises aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Zephaniah Collins
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 John Knowles< 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 kno [..] Foreman