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 Thirteenth day of May in the twenty sixth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
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 Noble< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Oakes< no role > , William Warren< no role > , John Millener< no role > ,
Abraham Musgrave< no role > , Thomas Fenn< no role > , Edward Handcock< no role > , John Fanson< no role >
William Jeffries< no role > , John Mathews< no role > , William Pixley< no role > , Nathaniel
Carringtion< no role > and John Bead< 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 Noble< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Noble< no role > a Lad of the
Age of fourteen Years on the twelfth day of May in the Year aforesaid was Riding
upon a certain horse and leading another horse in Hyde park in the
Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That a Man
unknown rode hastily by the said Thomas Noble< no role > , whereupon the Horse
led by the said Thomas Noble< no role > took fright, and the said Thomas Noble< no role > was
pulled off and from the said Horse on which he was riding unto the Ground
by reason whereof the said Thomas Noble< no role > did then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune receive a Contusion on the Right side
of the Head and a violent Concusion in the Brain of him the said
Thomas Noble< no role > , of which said Contusion and Concussion he the said Thomas
Noble< no role > at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, from the said twelfth
day of May in the Year aforesaid, untill the twenty ninth day of the same month
and Year did languish and languishing did live, on which said twenty ninth day
of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid,
he the said Thomas Noble< no role > of the mortal Contusion and Concussion aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, so say, that
the said Thomas Noble< 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 Corner, as the said
Richard Oakes< 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 their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place,
abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Richd Oakes< no role > Foreman