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. 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 Sixteenth day of March in the Eighteenth 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
Henry Snow< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Elsbee< no role > , Samuel Gould< no role > , John Lovey< no role > , John Clitherow< no role > , William Carr< no role > , Edward Partiter< no role > ,
John Sutton< no role > , James Bishop< no role > , Thomas Richardson< no role > , Richard Emery< no role > James Frith< no role >
John Sherwood< no role > and Nicholas Preston< 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 Henry Snow< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Henry Snow< no role > a Labourer on the
Twelfth day of March in the Year aforesaid being at Work upon the
dwelling House of Mr. Church at East Acton in the County aforesaid,
and then and there standing upon a Scaffold on the outsider of the
said House, it so happened that the said Scaffold gave way and that
the said Henry Snow< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell down from the said Scaffold unto the Ground, and
thereby did then and there receive divers mortal Bruises in
his Body, of which said mortal Bruises he the said Henry Snow< no role >
at St. Georges Hospital in the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty and County aforesaid from the said twelfth
day of March in the Year aforesaid until the said Sixteenth day
of the same Month and Year did languish, and then and there
of the mortal Bruises aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Henry
Snow< 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
William Elsbee< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
Day Year and Place first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Wm. ElsbeeForeman