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 St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Fifth day of August 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
John Greensmith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Allan< no role > , John Long< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , John Phillips< no role > , John Murgatroyd< no role >
John Legrix< no role > , John Carvell< no role > , Francis Parvisol< no role > , David Gwynn< no role >
George Allanson< no role > , Humphry Fifield< no role > , John Dewberry< no role > , William
Green< no role > and James Hopkins< 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 John Greensmith came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Greensmith an Infant
of the Age of Seven Years on the Twelfth day of August in the Year
aforesaid being of play, in the Lodging Room of John Greensmith< no role > his
Father being three Stories high in the House of Richard Welch< no role >
situate in Leg Alley in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and then and there looking through the Window in
the said Room, and the Sash being up, It so happened that the said
John Greensmith the Infant then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune fell out of and through the said Window unto
and upon the Stone Pavement in Leg Alley aforesaid, and thereby did
then and there receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the back part
of his Head, of which said mortal Fracture he the said John Greensmith
from the said Twelfth day of August in the Year aforesaid until the
Twenty second day of the same Month and Year at the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live, on which said Twenty second
day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square aforesaid he the said John Greensmith of the
mortal Fracture aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Greensmith
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
Allan< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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

Jno Allan< no role > Foreman