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. Margaret Westminster in the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter at Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of April in the 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 > Coroner of our said Lord the King,
for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Matthew O'Bryan< no role > than and there lying Dead;
upon the Oath of Joseph Swain< no role > John Butcher< no role > John Simmons< no role > Edward Bailey< no role > Alexander Carnegy< no role >
Richard Walker< no role > Henry Herd< no role > , William Jones< no role > , Francis Boswell< no role > , Richard Edwards< no role > , Thomas
Bushell< no role > , Martin Cook< no role > , John Haley< no role > and Michael Jones< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said
Liberty 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, Matthew O'Bryan came to his Death, Do upon their
Oath say, That on the Seventh day of April in the Year aforesaid, one Isaac Brooks< no role > being driving two Geldings drawing a
Coach along and through the Kings Highway in the Parish and Liberty aforesaid called Knightsbridge towards
Brentford in the County of Middlesex ; It so happened that as the said Geldings were briskly trotting along the
said Kings Highway called Knightsbridge then and there drawing the said Coach, that the said Matthew O'Bryan< no role > was
then and there against the Will of the said Isaac Brooks< no role > forced to the Ground and the near hind Wheel of the said
Coach did then and there causally accidentally by misfortune and against the Will of the said Isaac Brooks< no role >
instantly pass over the Head of the said Matthew O'Bryan< no role > , and the said Matthew O'Bryan< no role > did then
and there casually accidentally and by misfortune receive a Mortal Fracture in and upon his said Head, Of which said
Mortal Fracture he the said Matthew O'Bryan< no role > then and there instantly dyed, and in manner aforesaid casually accidentally
and by misfortune came to his Death: And that the said Near hind Wheel of the said Coach was moving to the Death of the said
Matthew O'Bryan< no role > , and is of the Value of ten Shillings, and the property and in the Possession of George Brunt< no role > and Rebecca Birch< no role > of
Brentford aforesaid in the said County of Middlesex Inn holders. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph
Swain< no role > Foreman on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
and Seals, the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Joseph Swain< no role > Foreman