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 twenty sixth day of November in the twenty fourth
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 David Scott< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Patrick Bodden< no role > William Adams< no role > Dalton Parr< no role > , Edward
Shee< no role > , William Watkins< no role > , Remont Baux< no role > , John Harman< no role >
John Wallis< no role > , John Didsbury< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Henry Baker< no role >
John Steers< no role > , Richard Berrows< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role > , and
Harry Fitzgerald< 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 David Scott< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said David Scott< no role > a Carpenter
on the Twenty fifth day of November in the Year aforesaid
being at Work upon the Flat at the top of a House in
Charles Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and being a Person Subject to Fits,
It so happened that the said David Scott< no role > then and there
Accidently Casually and by Misfortune fell down off
and from the top of the said House into the said Street
and thereby then and there received a mortal Fracture
in and upon the Forepart of his Head, of which said
Mortal Fracture he the said David Scott< no role > then and there
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, That the said David Scott< 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
Patrick Codden 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.

The Prickard [mark] Coroner

Patrick Codden< no role > [mark] Foreman