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 Fourteenth day of December 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
Joshua Levell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Peter Syson< no role > ,
Joseph Old< no role > , James Frost< no role > , Thomas Matthews< no role > , John Cave< no role > , Richard
Collington< no role > , James Jones< no role > , James Ward< no role > , Thomas Paintell< no role > , John Hayward< no role >
William Buckland< no role > and Thomas Pierpoint< 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 Joshua Lovell came to
h is- Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joshua Lovell< no role > on the
Tenth day of December in the Year aforesaid being upon a
Certain Brown Mare in Piccadilly in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and the said
Joshua Lovell being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the said
Mare against the Wheel of a certain Hackney Coach then
standing in the said Street, and then and there received divers
Wounds and Fractures in and upon his Head, of Which said
Wounds and Fractures he the said Joshua Lovell from the
said Tenth day of December in the Year aforesaid until the
Twelfth day of same Month and Year at the Parish, and
in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live on which said Twelfth day of December
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid he the said Joshua Lovell of the mortal Wounds and
Fractures aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Jurors aforesaid upon
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune come to his Death, and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Peter Syson< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place first
abovewritten

The Prickard [mark] Coroner

Peter Syson [mark] Foreman< no role >