City of 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 Twenty ninth day of July 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
Richard Drabwell< no role > This name instance is in set 18620. then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Fothergill< no role >
Alexander Grant< no role > , William Dring< no role > , John Richardson< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , Junior, George Stovell< no role > , Thomas Lees< no role >
Joseph Slowr< no role > , John Wills< no role > , John Shepherd< no role > , Robert Wood< no role > ; Thomas Sessons< no role > , Peter Charles Pessie< no role > ,
John Dobyns< no role > , Henry Mc. Laughlin< no role > , William Horrocks< no role > , and John Cave< 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 Drabwell came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Richard Drabwell a Watchman, on the
Sixteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid, having one John Marsh< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. in Charge in Oxford
Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and a great number of
Persons being there Assembled, it so happened that the said Pickard Drabwell was thrown
or forced down to the Ground, and the said Pickard Drabwell having held of the Collar of
the said John Marsh< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. did then and there pull the said John Marsh< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. down on the Body of him
the said Richard Drabwell by Means whereof the said Richard Drabwell did then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune receive divers Mortal Fractures in and upon the
Ribs on the left side, and one Mortal Wound in the Lungs of him the said Richard Drabwell
of which said Mortal Fractures and Wound he the said Richard Drabwell from the said Sixteenth
day of July in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty eighth day of the same Month in the same Year
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did
Live on which said Twenty eighth day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid he the said Richard Drabwell of the Mortal Fractures and Wound aforesaid did Dye
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Drabwell 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 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 first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jno. Fothergill< no role > [mark] Foreman