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 Sixth day of November in the Seventeenth 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
Edward Sheers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Edmondson< no role > , Louis Besuchet< no role > , George Rickets< no role > , Thomas Blith< no role > , Richard Collington< no role >
Richard Clark< no role > , Crpus Isaac< no role > , John Dorsdon< no role > , John Hardcastle< no role > , John Berry< no role >
James Ditterow< no role > and John Stephens< 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 Edward Sheers came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Sheers a
Stableman, on the Fifth day of November in the Year aforesaid
being in the Stable of Bright Hemmings< no role > Stable keeper situate
in Clarges Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, And that one of the Horses in the
said Stable then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune kicked and trod upon the said Edward Sheers,
be Means whereof the said Edward Sheers then and there
received divers Bruises in and upon her [..] of which
said mortal Bruises he the said Edward Sheers then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Edward Sheers 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 Edmondson< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Edmondson< no role > Foreman