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 Eleventh day of April 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 Thomas Allen< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Henry Monteath< no role > , Simon Wilson< no role > , John Evans< no role > , John
Mc.Intosh< no role > , Thomas Hawkes< no role > , William Bindon< no role > , John Bride< no role > ,
John Green< no role > , Miles Rowlindson< no role > , John Goodson< no role > , George Ridley< no role > ,
Peter Pike< no role > , James Brenmer< no role > , Edward Shiliker< no role > , Timothy Essex< no role > .
and Stephen Hart< 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 Allen< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Allen< no role > on the Sixth day of
April in the Year aforesaid, about the Hour of Twelve in the Night being asleep
near the five side in the Publick Tap Room of John Amphlett< no role > Victualler
situate and being in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County afore [..]
And that Richard Tidey< no role > a Laborer being Likewise with divers other Persons in the said
Taproom, And that the said Richard Tidey in Friendship endeavoured to awake
the said Thomas Allen< no role > to got into Bed, That the said Thomas Allen< no role > awoke in a
Passion and did then and there with his left Hand strike the said Richard Tidey
whereupon the said Richard Tidey with his Right Hand did Strike the said Thomas [..]
upon his left Eye. and that the said Thomas Allen< no role > thereby Casually and by Misfortune
and against the Will of the said Richard Tidey received a Mortal Fracture over the lift Eye
of him the said Thomas Allen< no role > of which said Mortal Fracture he the said Thomas Allen< no role >
from the said sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and at divers other Parishes, until the Ninth day of the same Months
in the same Year did languish and languishing did live, On which said Ninth day of
April in the Year aforesaid, he the said Thomas Allen< no role > at the said Parish of St.James within
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 Thomas Allen< no role > in
manner and by the Means aforesaid. Casually and by Misfortune and against the
Will of him the Richard Tidey came to his Death.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Henry
Monteath Foremans< no role > 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 above mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Henry Monteath [mark] Foreman< no role >