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 Twenty Sixth day of June in the Twentieth 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
William Plumber< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Storer< no role > , Thomas Hack< no role > , William Skeate< no role > , Stephen Garrard< no role > , Benjamin
Gillbert< no role > , Henry Bateman< no role > , Thomas Legge< no role > , Thomas Watts< no role > , William Storay< no role >
Thomas Astall< no role > , Owen Scott< no role > , Paul Webster< no role > , John Chant< no role > Alexander
Grant< no role > , George Martin< no role > , & Thomas West< 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 Plumber< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Plumber< no role > A Soldier
on the Twenty fifth day of June in the Year aforesaid being
in Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid with in the Liberty
and County aforesaid And that Peter Thurrs good another
Soldier was then and there carrying a Gun or Fire lock
into the Bell Tent, the same being charged with Gunpowder
and a leaden Bullet which was unknown to the said Peter
Thurrogood, It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune the said Gun, so loaded and charged as aforesaid
went off and was discharged and he the said William Plumber< no role >
by Means of the going off the said Gun as aforesaid
did then and there receive one mortal wound in and through
his Head, of which said mortal wound he the said William
Plumber< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do as say, that the said
William Plumber< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his
death and not otherwise.

In Witness where of as well the said Coroner
as the said Joseph Storer< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Joseph Storer< no role > [mark] Foreman