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 Sixth day of August 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 Richard Slaughter< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Pollis< no role > , Thomas Shephard< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , William Dorsett< no role >
Daniel Fryer< no role > , William Coward< no role > , Edward Troutbeck< no role > , William Elmer< no role > , Richard
Oakes< no role > , John Mew< no role > ,Cyrus Isaac< no role > , and Peter Fozzard< 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 Slaughter< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Richard Slaughter< no role > on the Thirtieth
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid being Riding on
the Roof of the Exeter Stage Coach in the Road near to Saint George's Hospital Hyde Park corner there
situate it so happened that the said Richard Slaughter< no role > accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell
from the same to the Ground by means whereof he the said Richard Slaughter< no role > did then and there receive
by the fall aforesaid one Mortal Bruise and Contusion on his Head of which said Mortal Bruise and
Contusion he the said Richard Slaughter< no role > from the said Thirtieth day of July in the Year aforesaid until the
Fourth day of August in the same Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did Languish
and Languishing did Live on which said Fourth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Hospital aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Slaughter< 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 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 > [mark] Coroner

John Pettis< no role > [mark] Foreman