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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret
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 July in the Sixteenth 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
Peter Ryley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Stone< no role >
Michael Griffin< no role > , James Britiffe< no role > , Christopher Languorthy< no role > , George Merrison< no role > , Christopher
Lockington< no role > , Thomas Walker< no role > , John Best< no role > , James Holdway< no role > , William Mourn< no role > , Samuel Ray< no role >
John Rose< no role > , and Easn Alfred
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 Peter Ryley came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Peter Ryley on the Sixth day of July in
the Year aforesaid in the County aforesaid to wit at a Place called Eldridges Wharf at Battle Bridge being in
a Barge along side a Ship called the Firly thore lying and employed in pulling Stone to rights hoisted from
the said Ship to sow it down in the Hold of the said Barge and hocking the love Tackle to the side of the
Barge, the Wood being rotten, the Love Tackle gave way and the Stone which was lowering of about Five
or Six Hundred Wright gave way and accidentally casually and by Misfortune forced to and against the
Person of him the said Peter Ryley and by the force and Wright thereof did then and therethrowhim the said
Peter Ryley to and against the side of the said Barge by means whereof he the said Peter Ryloy then and
there received one violent and mortal Wound on the right Thigh of him the said Peter Ryley of which said Mortal Wound he
the said Peter Ryley from the said Sixth day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of St. Margaret in the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit
at the Westminster Hospital in James Street< no role > did Languish and Languishing did Live untill the thirteenth day following of the said Month
on which said thriteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Hospital aforesaid of the Mortal Wound aforesaid he the said Peter Ryley did
Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Peter Ryley in mannor and by the means aforesaid
accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coronor as the Foreman
of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hans and Seals the Day
Year and at the Place first above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Johnston for Man [mark]