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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fourth day of April 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 William Hoddey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Whitaker< no role > , Robt. Plaxton< no role > , Edward Waller< no role >
Anthony Chambers< no role > , James Wightman< no role > , Alexander Duncan< no role > , Thomas
Marrot< no role > , John Davis< no role > , Adam Walker< no role > , William Still< no role > , Joseph Bate< no role >
Thos. Morrison< no role > and John Kemp< 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 William Hoddey came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Hodday< no role > a
Nightman on the second day of April in the year aforesaid being at
Work with other Men in Emptying the necessary House or Privy of
William Burn< no role > situate in Bedford Bury in the said Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid and being down in
the said Privy It so happened that the said William Hodday Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune was then and there suffocated of which
said Suffocation he the said William Hoddey then and there instantly died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
William Hoddey 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 Whitaker< 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 > [mark] Coroner
Joseph Whitaker< no role > [mark] Foreman