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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of January in the twenty ninth
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 DouglasThompson then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Dashwood< no role > , Burden Trawbridge< no role > , Charles Evans< no role >
Robert Child< no role > , William Atwood< no role > , Richard Carter< no role > , John Atkins< no role >
William Gibson< no role > , William Weston< no role > , Richard Bradley< no role > , Robert Crake< no role >
and Joseph Jerome< 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 Douglas Thompson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That on the twelfth day of January in the
Year aforesaid, Thomas Cooper< no role > a Labourer being on the Top of a certain
Large pile of Deal in the Yard of Stephen Cosser< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. situate in Milbank
Street, in the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and then and there throwing down some of the said Deal
and the said Douglas Thompson< no role > being on the Ground carrying away the said
Deal, and then and there going ground a Corner of the said Pile being in Liquor
and not seen by the said Thomas Cooper< no role > who was Carefully delivering the said
Deal, It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune one of
the said Deals in Coming down struch against the head of the said Douglas
Thompson by reason thereof he the said Douglas Thompson< no role > then and there received
one mortal Fracture in and upon the left side of his Head of which said
mortal Fracture he the said Douglas Thompson< no role > at the said Parish of St.
Margaret within the Liberty, and County aforesaid on the said twelfth day of
January in the Year aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Douglas Thompson< 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
Coroner , as the said Joseph Dashwood< 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
Joseph. Dashwood< no role > Foreman