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 January 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 John Breede< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Price< no role > , William Chandless< no role > , Thomas Reeve< no role >
David Wernham< no role > , John Robinson< no role > , John Woodman< no role >
Richard Ladd< no role > , Nathan Carrington< no role > , John Cooke< no role >
John Miller< no role > , Abraham Musgrave< no role > and Thomas Storer< 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 John Breede came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Breede a
Bricklayer on the said Sixth day of January in the Year
aforesaid being at Work on the top of a certain Empty House
situate in John Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there being
upon a Ladder on the Outside of the said House, It so happened
that the Ladder gave way and that the said John Breede
did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fall from the Top of the said House into the said Street, and
thereby then and there received a mortal Fracture in and
upon the Rightside of the Head of him the said John Breede
of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Breede then
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said John Breede in
Manner and form 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

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

James Price< no role > Foreman