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 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 ninth day of July
in the Twenty second 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 Thomas Whittingham< no role > then and there lying dead upon
the Oath of James Price< no role > John Nock< no role > , Michael Barker< no role > Joseph Wray< no role > , John
Matthews< no role > David Berrry< no role > , Richard Smith< no role > Leonard Lad< no role > , Thomas Fletcher< no role > ,
William Newman< no role > Richard Sloper< no role > , James Duckson< no role > , William Pritchard< no role > and
Robert Moffett< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, who being then an
there duly Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King when
how and by what Means the said Thomas Whittingham< no role > came to his
death do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Whittingham< no role > and one
Thomas Moore< no role > on the Twenty seventh day of July in the Year aforesaid
being wantonly, and not in Anger, Wrestling together in the Dwelling
House Samuel Cretchell< no role > in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and that it so happened that the said Thomas Whittingham< no role >
threw down and with great force fall upon the said Thomas Moore< no role > , and thereby
then and there Casually and by Misfortune and against the Will of him the said
Thomas Moore< no role > received a violent Bruise in and upon the Private Parts of
him the said Thomas Whittingham< no role > , of which he languished until the Twenty eighth
day of the same Month of July in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
on which said Twenty eighth day of July in the Year aforesaid he the said Thomas
Whittingham< no role > of the mortal Bruise aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said Thomas Whittingham< 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 James Price< 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 .

James Price< no role > [mark] Foreman