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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirty first day of December 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 said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
William Molloy< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Hodgson< no role > Adam Mackleran< no role > , John Wells< no role > , Samuel Hetton< no role > , Samuel
Fourakers< no role > , Jerom Ireland< no role > , Thomas Brooks< no role > , William Stephenson< no role >
Thomas Salter< no role > , Robert Miland< no role > , David Price< no role > , Thomas Hughes< no role > ,
James Wellington< no role > & Richard Cunningham< 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 William Molloy< no role > came to
h is

Death, do upon their Oath say,

That the said William Molloy< no role > a
Watchman on the Twenty ninth day of December in the Year
aforesaid being upon Duty in Wardour Street in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then
and there looking into the Ruins of a House lately burntdown
by Fire, It so happened that the said William Molloy< no role > Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell down into the Cellar in the
said Ruins, and thereby then and there did receive one
mortal Concussion in and upon the Brain of him the
said William Molloy< no role > , of which said mortal Concussion
he the said William Molloy< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say, that the said William Molloy< 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 Hodgson< 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 Hodgson< no role > Foreman