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 Seventeenth day of November in the Thirteenth
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 Knipe< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Benjamin Capper< no role > , William Nethersale< no role > , James Gibbs< no role > ,
James James< no role > , Joseph Sharp< no role > , Henry Robbertson< no role > , Theodore Allen< no role >
John Bird< no role > . Robert Berry< no role > , Henry Walton< no role > , Joseph Moore< no role >
Thomas Pinches< no role > , Joseph Wilson< no role > , Joseph Gurney< no role > , William
Winterflood< no role > and Henry Irvin< 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 Knipe< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Knipe< no role > a Carpenter on
the sixteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid being at Work upon an
House in Bull Inn Court in the said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and standing upon a Scaffold on the
outside of the said House, at the Keight of Two Stories, It so happened that
the said John Kimpe< no role > , Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, fell off and from
the said scaffold upon the Stone Pavement of the said Court, and thereby then
and those did receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the back part of his
Head of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Knipe< no role > then and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that
the said John Knipe< 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 Benjamin Capper< 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
Benjn. Cappers< no role > Foreman