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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of October 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
Sarah Dwyer< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Vaughan< no role >
Thomas Matthews< no role > , John Lea< no role > , Richard Gardiner< no role > , Fenwick Milford< no role > , John Tinckner< no role > , Joshua Chassercan< no role >
Joseph Thevenot< no role > , Anthony Smith< no role > , John Williamson< no role > , James Rawson< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Thomas Sturzaker< no role > ,
James Hopwood< no role > , and John Dickery< 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 Sarah Dwyer came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said Sarah Dwyer on the Fourteenth day of October
in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid (to wit) in Rupert Street , being
coming with a Pail of Water in her Hand at the Dwelling House of Mr. George Smith< no role > Victualler , known
by the Sign of the Crown there situate, from the Yard of the said House with an intent to go up Stairs
to her Apartment on Lodging in the one pair of Stairs back Room of the said House, it so happened that
accidentally casually and by misfortune she the said Sarah Dwyer fell from the top of the Stairs by
the yard of the said House to the Cellar at the bottom of the said Stairs by means whereof she the said
Sarah Dwyer then and there received a Violent and Mortal Contusion in the Head near the Right Ear of
for the said Sarah Dwyer of which said Violent and Mortal Contusion she the said Sarah Dwyer at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid [..] there instantly Dwyer [..]
upon their oath aforesaid do say That the said Sarah Dwyer in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as
will the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the
said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place
abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
John Vaughan< no role > Foreman