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. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of October in the Thirty first
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 Smith< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Pettis< no role > , Peter Fozard< no role > , Richard Wrather< no role > , William
Conyers< no role > , Joseph Sparkhall< no role > , Thomas White< no role > , John Truscott< no role >
Edward Sutton< no role > , James Brodie< no role > , John Gilbert< no role > , John Lee< no role > and
John Tranfield< 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 Smith< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That Savill Bromley< no role > late of the Parish of St. James within the Liberty
and County aforesaid Laborer , on the Eighteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at
the said Parish of St. James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said William Smith< no role >
in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously did make an Assault, And the
the said Saville Bromley< no role > then and there had and held in both in Hands of the Value of the of one
Shilling which he the said Savill Bromley< no role > then and there had and held in both his Hands him the said
William Smith< no role > in and upon the left side of the Head of him the said William Smith< no role > did then and then
Feloniously strike and beat, therely then and then giving unto him the said William Smith< no role > with the Broom aforesaid in and upon
the said left side of side Head of him the said William Smith< no role > , one mortal Fracture, of which said
Mortal Fracture he the said William Smith< no role > , at the Parish of Saint James and also at St. George
Hospital in the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid
from the said Eighteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty first day of the same
Month in the same Year did languish and languishing did live, on which said Twenty first day of October
in the Year aforesaid, in the Hospital aforesaid, at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said William Smith< no role > of the mortal Fracture aforesaid did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Savill Bromley< no role > him the
said William Smith< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously did hill and slay against
the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity, And that the said Savill Bromley at the
Time of committing the Felony and Man Slaughter aforesaid, or at any Time since had no Goods on Chattels
Lands or Tenements within the said Liberty of Westminster or elshwhere to the Knowledge or Notice of
the said Jurors,

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said John Pettis< 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

John Pettis< no role > Foreman