City & Liberty
of Westmr in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this fifth day
of July 1791 at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty of
Westmr. in the County of Middlesex
upon an Inquisition touching the
death of John Banks< no role > lying dead
in the said Parish Liberty and County

Charles Rubery< no role > of the Parish of Chaswick
in the County of Midsex Farmer on his Oath
saith That John Banks< no role > the Deced was
Servant to this Dept and his Brother Thomas
Rubery< no role > Says that on Friday last the first
day of this Instant he sent the Deced upon
an Errand on a Bay Horse That he went
off, and in about a Quarter of an hour
the Horse came back into the Yard without the
Rider Says that the Deced was found in the
Lane there near this Dept. House being
Senseless and unable to Speak Says that the
Deced had fallen of the Horse as Dept think
the Horse being a Quiet Horse and free
from Vice and Dept believes that the Deced
fall was merely Accidental. says that the
Deced died on Saturday Evening in St George
Hospital

Charles Ruberry< no role >

Brocket Grover< no role > House Surgeon at St. George
Hospital in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square on his Oath Saith That on Friday Night
last the Deced was brought to said Hospital
having read an Injury in the Head and now
Bruises on the Head Says that every thing
was done for the Deced in the Hospital but
he died there on Saturday Evening the Second
Instant Says that the opened the Head on Sunday
Morning and found a Great Extragation of
Blood upon the Brain which Dept. believes to be
the cause of Deced's Death

Brockett Grover< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day year
& Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner