London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Nicholas Acorns in the Ward of Langbourn in London
aforesaid on the fourteenth day of December in the thirty [..] eighth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before
Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London
and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Robert Clark< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of James Davies< no role > the younger , Robert Bainton< no role > William Hacket< no role > ,
James Davies< no role > , James Simth< no role > Thomas Fenton< no role > Robert Dutton< no role > , William Blakes< no role >
William Collins< no role > , James Kirkpatrick< no role > , Conway Joyce< no role > , Thomas Simon< no role > , Joseph Taylor< no role >
Robert Scott< no role > , and Thomas Howes< no role > , good and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our
said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Robert Clark< no role > came
to his death say upon their oath that the said Robert Clark< no role > on the twelfth day
of December in the year aforesaid being going down certain stairs leading
to a cellar in a house there situate called the Phoenix fire office It so happened
that the said Robert Clark< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down the
said stairs to and against a certain upright piece of wood in a certain wall
at the bottom of the said Stairs by means whereof the said Robert Clark< no role > did
then and there receive one mortal wound in and upon his head of which said
mortal wound he the said Robert Clark< no role > did then and there die-And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Robert 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 James
Davies the younger the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 first above written

James Davies< no role > Junr [mark] Foreman