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. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of August in the twenty third
Year of the Regin 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 Margaret Armstrong< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Scott< no role > . Thomas Gwilliam< no role > , Anthony Fabry< no role >
Alexander Mills< no role > , Cannon Hopkins< no role > , William Gibson< no role > ,
Stephen Haiam< no role > , Thomas Sykes< no role > , James Sybert< no role > , John Leach< no role >
Robert Thompson< no role > , Robert Ellis< no role > , and John Taylor< 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 Margaret Armstrong< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Margaret Armstrong< no role > an
Infant of the Age of four Years on the Fifth day of August in the Year
aforesaid being at Play upon the Window Seal in the Lodging Room
of William Armstrong< no role > on the First Floor in the Dwelling House of William
Roberts< no role > situate in the Broad Way at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid, And the Sash being up It so happened that
the said Margaret Armstrong< no role > the Infant then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and through the said Window
unto and upon the Stone Pavement in the said Street, and thereby
did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the Forepart of the
Head over the left Eye of her the said Margaret Armstrong< no role > , of which
said Mortal Fracture she the said Margaret Armstrong< no role > from the
said fifth day of August in the Year aforesaid until the Seventh
day of the same Month did languish and live, on which said Seventh
day of September aforesaid she the said Margaret Armstrong< no role > at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid of the mortal Fracture
aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Margaret Armstrong< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to her Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Scott< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Thos. ScottForeman