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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth 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
Edmund Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Abraham
Appleton< no role > , Samuel brook< no role > , Thomas Blackmore< no role > , Henry Pitkin< no role > , Francis Batchelor< no role > ,
Charles Inderwick< no role > , John Hansell< no role > , Thomas Lee< no role > , Richard Bunney< no role > , James Wood< no role > ,
John Price< no role > and Matthew Lovejoy< 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 Edmund Smith< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Edmund Smith< no role > on the
Sixteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid (in the Night time)
being in the Garden of Thomas Hodges< no role > situate upon Mill Bank in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
and being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened
that the said Edmund Smith< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune fell into a certain Well in the Garden of the said
Thomas Hodges< no role > , and in the Water in the said Well was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Edmund Smith< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Edmund
Smith< 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
Abraham Appleton< 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 Years and Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Abram. Appleton< no role > Foreman