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 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 Eighteenth day of October 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
Richard Pidgeon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Daniel
Armstrong< no role > Robert Martin< no role > , John Watson< no role > , Charles Dimock< no role > , William Fryer< no role > ,
William Sutton< no role > , Thomas Hutckinson< no role > , William Carr< no role > , John Twigg< no role > , Thomas Paul< no role > ,
William Welling< no role > and William Mackume< 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 Richard Pidgeon< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said Richard Pidgeon< no role > a Lad,
of the Age of Eight Years, on the Seventeenth day of October in the
Year aforesaid being in the Cowhouse of William Guest< no role > Cowkeeper
situate in Park Lane in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, And the Cows being then let loose and going out
of the said Cowhouse, It so happened that one of the said Cows then
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune kicked the
said Richard Pidgeon< no role > in and upon the Rightside of his Head
by Means whereof the said Richard Pidgeon< no role > then and there received
one mortal Bruise in and upon the Right side of his Head, of
which said Mortal Brunt he the said Richard Pidgeon< no role > then
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Richard Pidgeon< 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 Daniel Armstrong
Foreman of the said Jurors, on 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

Danl. Armstrong< no role > Foreman