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 second day of February in the Twenty first 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
Ephraim Hudson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Sutherland< no role > , John Horwood< no role > , John Ainsley< no role > , Hugh Payne< no role > , John
Elyas< no role > , Richard Herring< no role > John Pennell< no role > , John Ludlam< no role >
William Newton< no role > , William Bailey< no role > , Nathaniel Mann< no role > Saml. Salmon< no role >
William Williams< no role > and Edward George< 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 Ephrarim Hudson came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ephraim Hudson< no role > on
the Twentieth day of February in the Year aforesaid being
Riding upon a certain Horse upon Westminster Bridge
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, It so happened that the said Horse took fright, and
that the said Ephraim Hudson< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the said Horse,
by Means of which said fall he the said Ephraim Hudson< no role >
then and there received on mortal Fracture in and upon
the back part of his Head, of which said mortal Fracture
he the said Ephraim Hudson< no role > from the said Twentieth day
of February in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty first
day of the same Month at the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish, and of
the said mortal Fracture then there did die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said Ephraim Hudson< 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 John Sutherland< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on
the behalf of himself and the rest of his 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
John Sutherland< no role > [mark] Foreman