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 Margaret
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 Novr. in the Nineteenth 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
a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Michael
Castleden< no role > John Leech< no role > , Richard Whitehead< no role > , Aaron Loton< no role > , Richard Sherlock< no role >
John Young< no role > , Richard Hatch< no role > , Samuel Mitchell< no role > , Charles Law< no role > Thomas Field< no role > ,
Henry Thomas< no role > and Robert Skinner< 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 Woman unknown came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Woman Unknown on the
Twenty Seventh day of November in the Year aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down certain
Stone Steps leading from Duke Street into St. James's Park
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid and thereby then and there received one
mortal Bruise and Contusion in and upon the left side
of the Head of her the said woman unknown, of which
said Mortal Bruise and Contrision she the said woman
unknown then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Woman
unknown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by misfortune came to her
death, and not otherwise. In Witness where of
as well the said Coroner, as the said Michael Castleden< 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 > [mark] Coroner .

Mr. Castleden [mark] Foreman