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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth day of April in the Eighteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grave 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 Wood< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Cowper< no role > Edward Jones< no role > Joseph Ball< no role > , John Llewellyn< no role > , Philip
Wyatt< no role > Richard Stanford< no role > Frank Rochford< no role > John Corass< no role > , David
Styles< no role > James Corneck< no role > , Nicholas Philipson< no role > Thomas Harrison< no role > John Watson< no role >
John Shirley< no role > John Burton< no role > & John Triston< 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 Wood< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said Edward Wood< no role > on the Twenty
fifth day of April in the Year aforesaid being Riding upon a
certain Black Horse upon Epsom Downs nigh unto Sutton
in the County of Surry, and being then and there very much
Intoxicated with Liquor and unable to stop the said Horse
It so happened that the said Edward Wood< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the said Black
Horse unto the Ground and thereby then and there did receive
several Contusions in and upon his Head, and a Concussion
in the Brain, of which said mortal Contusions and Concussion
he the said Edward Wood< no role > from the said Twenty fifth day of April
in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty sixth day of the same
Month in the same Year at Sutton aforesaid and also at the said
Parish of St. James within the Liberty and County aforesaid did
languish and languishing did live, on which said Twenty sixth
day of April aforesaid he the said Edward Wood< no role > at the said Parish
of St. James of the mortal Contusions and Concussion aforesaid did
die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Edward Wood< 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 John Cowper< 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 abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Cowper< no role > Foreman