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 Fifth day of September 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
Jonathan Fidler< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Abbott< no role >
George Pollard< no role > , John Packwood< no role > , David Bagshaw< no role > , Dominick Adlum< no role > , George Hopkins< no role >
William Mitchell< no role > , William Blow< no role > , John Archer< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , Thomas Halloway< no role >
William Sylvanus Price< no role > , and William Astley< 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 Jonathan Fidler< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > on the Thirtieth day of August
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist in the Liberty and County aforesaid, to wit, in Milbank Street
being driving a Cart with three Horses, and a Dray with two Horses being standing still in the said Street, it so happened
that as the Fore Horse in the Cart which was driving by the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > came up to the Fore Horse in the Dray
which was standing still, the said Fore Horse in the said Dray Neighed and immediately reared up and struck out his hind
Legs to and against the Breast and Sides of him the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > as he the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > was passing on
with his said Cart and Horses, by means whereof he the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > accidentally casually and by Misfortune then
and there received a violent and Mortal Contusion on the Breast and Sides and a Fracture of Six of the Ribs of him the said
Jonathan Fidler< no role > , of which said violent and mortal Contusion and Fracture he the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > at the Parish of Saint
John the Evangelist in the Liberty and County aforesaid, and also at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the Liberty and County aforesaid
from the said Thirtieth day of August in the Year aforesaid until the Fifth day of September in the same Year did Languish
and languishing did Live on which said Fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the
Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at the Westminster Hospital in James Street< no role > he the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > of the said violent
and Mortal Contusion and Fracture did Dye, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Jonathan Fidler< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death and not
otherwise, and that the Fore Horse in the said Dray was Moving to the Death of the said Jonathan Fidler< no role > , and is of the Value of Five
Shillings and is the Property and in the Possession of Richard Pearce< no role > of the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist in the Liberty and County
aforesaid or of his Assigns. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself
and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .
James Abbott Foreman