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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of February in the twenty sixth
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 Joseph Coates< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Dumford, Robert Obaldiston, Joseph Pitts< no role > , George Hale< no role >
William Green< no role > , Adam Wright< no role > , Joseph Garrett< no role > , John West< no role > , John
Pinchback< no role > , Edward Houlditch< no role > , William Raybolt< no role > , William Watkins< no role >
Edward Gwynn< no role > , Phillips Albott< no role > , Charles Killew< no role > , John Watts< no role > , Thomas
Cox< no role > and David Dewy< 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 Joseph Coates< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That William Divers< no role > a Waggoner on the
Fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid, in the Night
time was filling a certain Waggon with Grains, and drawn by,
three Horses in Langley Street in the Parish aforesaid, within the
Liberty and County aforesaid. And that the said Joseph Coates< no role >
a Lad was then and there picking up the scattered Grains for his
Rabbots, and being very [..] It so happened that when the Horses
moved forwards with the Load the Off what of the said Waggon Pressed
the said Joseph Coates< no role > (who was not seen by the said William Divers< no role > )
to and against the Wall by Means whereof the said Joseph Coates< no role >
then and there, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune received
a Mortal Fracture in and upon the left side of the Head of him
the said Joseph Coates< no role > of which said Mortal Fracture he the said
Joseph Coates< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid,
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph Coates< no role >
in manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said Robert Dumford< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors,
on the behalf of himself and the best of his Fellows in their Presence
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year and Place above mentioned,

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Robt. Dumford [mark] Foreman