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 third day of September in the twenty eighth
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 Burgan< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of George Stoddart< no role > , Abraham Musgrave< no role > , Thomas Whiting< no role >
William Storey< no role > , John Davies< no role > , William King< no role > , John Ballard< no role > , Benjamin
West< no role > , William Pointer< no role > , Owen Scott< no role > , Henry Slack< no role > and
Thomas Ballard< 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 Burgan< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Burgan< no role > a Carpenter,
on the twenty ninth day of August in the Year aforesaid, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell down the Stairs in his Workshop,
situate and being in South Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and that the said John Burgan< no role > by such
fall received a mortal Concussion in his Brain, of which said mortal
Concussion he the said John Burgan< no role > from the said twenty ninth
day of August in the year aforesaid, until the thirtieth day of
the same month and year, at the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
did languish and live, on which said thirtieth day of August in
the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, he the said John Burgan< no role > of the mortal Concussion
aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say that the said John Burgan< no role > in manner and by
the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune can
to his Death and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said George Stoddart Foreman< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
George Stoddart< no role > [mark] Foreman