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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day of September 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
Robert Lesley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Stilwell< no role > , Thomas Sutton< no role > , Simon Bayly< no role > , James Morrison< no role > , Jacob Sherrer< no role > , Robert
Bagnall< no role > , Thomas Mitchell< no role > , Thomas Renshaw< no role > , Christopher Flaherty< no role > , Robert Law< no role > ,
William Foster< no role > , William Smith< no role > and John Moore< 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 Robert Lesley< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Robert Lesley on the Seventh
day of September in the Year aforesaid, being Riding upon a certain
Horse in Grays Inn Lane in the Parish of St. Andrew Holborn in the
County aforesaid, and being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor
It so happened that the said Robert Lesley Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell off and from the said Horse unto the Ground, and
thereby then and there received divers Bruises in and upon his Head,
of which he languished until the Eighth day of the same Month and
Year, at the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, on which said Eighth day of September in the
Year aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , he the
said Robert Lesley< no role > of the mortal Bruises aforesaid did die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Robert Lesley< 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 John Stilwell< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Jno. Stilwell< no role > Foreman