City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex ,}
to wit,

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of George Ward< no role > the Sign of the Kings head James Street parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the tenth day of June 1797
in the thirty seventh 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 Anthony Gell< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City
and Liberty, on View of the Body of Robert Hayley< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 Robert Hayley came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Robert Hawley on the twenty second day of March
in the Year aforesaid at the parish and in the Liberty aforesaid being about to
seat himself in a certain Chair in a certain Chamber of the House commonly
called the Northumberland Arms in Scotland yard it so happened that
some person unknown innocently withdrew the said Chair by Means whereof
he the said Robert Hayley then & there fell to and against the floor & thereby
then & there received a Mortal Contusion on the back of the head of him the
said Robert Hayley of which said Mortal Wound he the said Robert Hayley
did languish and languishing did li [..] e until the eighth day of June in the
year aforesaid on which said Eighth day of June in the year aforesaid
at the parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit at the Westminster
Infirmary he the said Robert Hayley of the said Moral Bruise so
received as aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune did die
and not otherwise

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }

John Walton< no role >
Wm Moody< no role >
W Brookes
Samuel [..] igby

James Browne< no role >
Michll Conolly< no role >
John Phillips< no role >
Edwd. Harris< no role >
Thomas Ward< no role >
The mark of
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Thomas Allcock< no role >

The [mark] mark
of Jacob Forester< no role >
John Watts< no role >
Wm Bernes< no role >