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 fourteenth 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 Thomas Martin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Wilkinson< no role > , William Sutton< no role > , John Falkner< no role >
William Robertson< no role > , William Cook< no role > , William Martin< no role > , James Middleton< no role >
James Timmins< no role > , Robt. Hill< no role > , David Johnson< no role > , Thomas Etherington< no role > , Thomas
Cummings< no role > and Richard Stevenson< 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 Martin< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That on the thirteenth day of April in
the year aforesaid, the said Thomas Martin< no role > a Carpenter, was at Work on
the Outside of a certain House situate in Grosvenor Mews, in the said
Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, and standing upon a Scaffold raised against the said House
It so happened that the Scaffold broke & that the said Thomas Martin< no role > fell
from the said Scaffold at the Knight of Five and Twenty feet unto the Ground
and thereby then and there Accidentally Casually and by misfortune did receive
mortal Bruises in and upon his Body, of which said mortal Bruises he the
said Thomas Martin< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Martin< 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 John Wilkinson< 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
Jno. Wilkinson< no role > [mark] Foreman