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 Twenty eighth day of October in the Thirty second
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 Ann Simmons< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Pickering< no role > , Henry Hardyman< no role > , John Clarke< no role > , William
Martin< no role > , Thomas Syminson< no role > , John George< no role > , Richard Barton< no role >
Christopher Wilcocks< no role > , Matthew Burgess< no role > , Richard Garrett< no role > , John Walker< no role >
Thomas Salyman< no role > and Joseph Meilan< 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 Ann Simmons< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty Fifth day of October in
the Year aforesaid the said Ann Simmons< no role > was going down the better Stairs leading
to her Cellar situate in Burden Street in the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said
Ann Simmons< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down the
said Stairs unto the Bottom thereof and thereby then and there received a violent
and mortal Concussion in and upon the Brain of her the said Ann Simmons< no role >
of which said Mortal Concussion she the said Ann Simmons< no role > then and there
died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the
said Ann Simmons< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Pickering< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself
and the rent 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. Pickering< no role > [mark] Foreman