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. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of August 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 Thomas Lunt< no role > a Child of the Age of Three Year then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Solamen Marriott< no role > , Samuel Yates< no role > , Daniel Mackdonal< no role > , John
Davis< no role > , William Bellinger< no role > , George Dixon< no role > , James Bean< no role > , John Martin< no role >
Joseph Mabley< no role > , Charles Clark< no role > , Charles Kither< no role > , Peter Gough< no role > , and John
Lane< 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 Thomas Lunt< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Lunt< no role > on the 25th. day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid being
at a Window in the one pair of Stairs in the House of Mr. Tooley situate in Dacre Street
the lodging Room of the Parents of the said Child and the Saith of the Window being open
it so happened that the said Child accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the
said Window upon the Wooden Shutter of the Cellar in the Footway of the Street and by means
thereof did then and there receive one Mortal Fracture on his Head of which said Mortal
Fracture the said Child languished and languishing did Lure untill the Twenty seventh
day of the same month in the Year aforesaid in which said Twenty seventh day of August
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid the said Child of the
said Mortal Fracture aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid on their Oath aforesaid
he say That the said Child 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 home to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year and at the Place above written

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Soloman Marriott< no role > [mark] Foreman