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 Fourth day of October 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
Richard Chace< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Jacob
Watson< no role > , William Mumbey< no role > , Henry Beale< no role > , William Sharpe< no role >
Peter Goostree< no role > , William Hudson< no role > , Richard Paine< no role > , Richard Watson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
John Beard< no role > , Christopher Bolton< no role > , John Thompson< no role > Clement Batson< no role > ,
James Ealing< no role > and Richard Gorge< 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 Richard Chace< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Richard Chace< no role > on the said
Fourth day of October in the Year aforesaid in getting over the
Iron Rails on the back part of the dwelling House of James Willis< no role >
situate in St. James's Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell upon one of the Iron Spikes, and thereby then
and there received one mortal Wound in the Right Thigh of
him the said Richard Chace< no role > , of which said Mortal Wound he
the said Richard Chace< no role > then and there died. and so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Richard Chace< no role > , in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his death.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jacob
Watson< 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 > Coroner

Jacob Watson< no role > Foreman