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 in the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter at Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first 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 Matthias Molineux< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Douglas< no role > . John Crook< no role > , Thomas Hutchison< no role > , Richards
Oakes< no role > , William Jones< no role > Robert Arnold< no role > , James Morris< no role > , Thomas Webb< no role > , Thomas Sprigs< no role > , Henry Stevens< no role > ,
John Clare< no role > , William Morris< no role > , Samuel Norgrove< no role > and William Mason< 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 Matthias Molineux< no role > came to his
Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Matthew Molineux an Infant of the Age of Nine Years on the
fourteenth of April in the Year aforesaid was playing in a certain Ground, railed in, belonging and adjoining to the
dwelling House of Edward Molineux< no role > his Father situate in the Parish and Liberty aforesaid wherein was a certain Window
appertaining to a Cellar there, thr'o which Tallow and other Necessaries were conveyed into the said Cellar, And that it so
happened as the said Matthias Molineux< no role > was in such play drawing a Cart and walking backwards,(the Window of the
said Cellar being open and the said Matthias Molineux< no role > not knowing thereof) he the said Matthias Molineux then and
there accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell through the said Window upon the Floor of the same Cellar, And by means
of such falling did then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune receive one Mortal Fracture upon
the Scull of him the said Matthias Molineux< no role > above the left Eye of him the said Matthias Molineux, Of which Mortal Fracture
he the said Matthias Molineux< no role > from the said fourteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid until the Nineteenth day of April in the same
Year did languish and languishing did live, On which last mentioned Day and Year the said Matthias Molineux, of the said Mortal
Fracture at the Parish and Liberty aforesaid did Dye. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Dauglas 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 above mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Jno Douglas< no role > Forman