MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Tottenham in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of March in the Twenty Sixth 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
John Frankham< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Lee< no role > , Edward Culph< no role > , John Clifford< no role > , James Barrat< no role > , William Goodman< no role > , Joseph
Lownds< no role > , John Wheler< no role > , John Cheese< no role > John Robb John Sharp< no role > , Edmund Ladbrook< no role >
and John Atrherton< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said John Frankham< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Frankham< no role > on the Fifteenth Day of March
in the Year aforesaid being a Grinder at Work at an Oil manufactory belonging to John Swinney< no role >
situate in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the Iron Spindle which
held together the Grinding Stones of the said mill then and there suddenly broke and
one of the said Grinding Stones accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell on the said
John Frankham< no role > By Means whereof he the said John Frankham< no role > then and there received
divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Thighs of him the said John Frankham< no role > of which
said Mortal Bruises he the said John Frankham< no role > languished for the Space of an Hour and
then died to Wit at the Parish and County aforesaid And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Frankham< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death
And that the said last mentioned Stone was the Cause of the Death of the said John
Frankham and is of the Value of Five Shillings And the Property and in the Possession of
the said John Swinney< no role >

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Lee< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Thomas Lee< no role > [mark] Foreman