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 St. 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 Fifteenth day of October in the twenty seventh
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 Gardener< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Fryer< no role > , John Warren< no role > , William Elmer< no role > ,
Thomas Bailey< no role > , Peter Osborn< no role > , Edward Warren< no role > ,
Jacob Doreppe< no role > , John Debenhan< no role > , John Ray< no role > ,
William Rawlings< no role > . William Carr< no role > , John Duffill< no role >
and Savage Ewers< 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 Gardener< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Gardener< no role > on the ninth day of
October in the year aforesaid between the Hours of Ten and Eleven in the night with great violence did endeavour
forcibly to enter into the Dwelling House of Elizabeth Drake< no role > situate at Knightsbridge in the Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and Threatened to set the said House on Fire Whereupon Charles
Knight< no role > servant to the said Elizabeth Drate in Defence of the said House and the Property therein of her the
said Elizabeth Drake< no role > a certain Gun called a Blunderbuss loaded with Gun powder and several loaden
Bulletts did then and there shoot off and discharge and that it so happened that some of the said Bulletts so
shot out of the said Blunderbuss by him the said Charles Knight< no role > as aforesaid did give unto him
the said John Gardener< no role > one Mortal Wound in each of the Thighs of him the said John Gardener< no role >
of which said Mortal Wounds he the said John Gardener< no role > at Saint George's Hospital in the said Parish of
Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid from the said ninth day
of October in the Year aforesaid until the twelfth day of the same Month in the same Year did
languish and languishing did live on which said twelfth day of October in the Year aforesaid at the
Hospital aforesaid he the said John Gardener< no role > of the mortal Wounds aforesaid did die, And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Charles Knight< no role > Justifiably in the
Defence of himself and of the House and Property of the said Elizabeth Drake< no role > him the said John Gardener< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Fryer< 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 tha Day Year and
Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm. Fryer Foreman