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 Seventeenth day of January 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 Samuel Clark< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Phillip Thomas< no role > , Gefford Radford< no role > , Charles Dimock< no role > , Peter
Osborn< no role > , John Carm< no role > , Thomas Baintow< no role > , Alexander Hendersons< no role > , Joseph
Sparkhall< no role > , Thomas Edwards< no role > , James Wilson< no role > , Thomas Bayley< no role > , Richard
Rather< no role > , John Bedford< no role > , John Kemlin< no role > , & Ralph Peacocke< 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 Samuel Clark< no role > came to
his, Death, do upon their Oath say That on the Fourteenth day of January in the
Year aforesaid the said Samuel Clark< no role > aged Nine Years was sliding with another
Boy upon the ice in South Audley Street in the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and that John Swarne< no role > was carefully
driving a certain cart loaded with Dung and drawn by four Horses in the said Street
It so happened that the said Samuel Clark< no role > fell down upon the Ice near into the of
Wheel of the said Cart and that the off wheel of the said Cart then and there Accidentally
Casually and by misfortune passed over the upper part of the Right Thigh of the said
Samuel Clark< no role > by reason whereof the said Samuel Clark< no role > then and there receidence
mortal Wound and Fracture in and upon the upper part of the right Thigh of him
the said Samuel Clark< no role > of Which said mortal Wound and Fracture he the said
Samuel Clark< no role > at St. George's Hospital in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid from
the said Fourteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid until the Sixteenth day of
the same Month and Year did languish and languishing did live on which said Sixteenth
day of January in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
he the said Samuel Clark< no role > of the mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Samuel
Clark< 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
Philip Thomas< 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
Philip Thomas< no role > [mark] Foreman