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 within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Seventh
day of December in the fourth 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 > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty on View of the Body of a Woman Unknown then and there lying Dead upon the Oath
of Edward Gray< no role > , Edward Richardson< no role > , William Herne< no role > , William Sleigh< no role > , Richard Mason< no role > , Ralph
Walker< no role > , James Martin< no role > , Oliver Ball< no role > , John Coats< no role > , John Rumsey< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Edward Truden< no role >
John Lyons< no role > , Edward Prebell< no role > , Joseph Walters< no role > , William Bower< no role > , John Sansbury< no role > , Tall Scott< no role > , Henry
Skeats< no role > , William Thomas< no role > and Richard Cook< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King where
how, and by what Means the said Woman Unknown came to her Death do upon their Oath
say, That the said Woman Unknown being a Lodger in an Old decayed House, situate and
being in a certain Court called Silver Court, in the said Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid; It so happened that between Eleven
and twelve of the Clock at Night, of the Fifth day of December in the Year aforesaid, the said
old decayed House, in which the said Woman Unknown, and several other Persons then
and there lodged, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune sunk and fell in, by Means
whereof the said Woman Unknown was then and there under the ruins and Materials
thereof Smothered, Suffocated and Killed, of which said Smothering, Suffocation, and Killing,
she the said Woman Unknown then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Woman Unknown in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune came to her Death, and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Edward Gray< no role > ,
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 Year
and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Edward Gray< no role > [mark] Froeman.