City and Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
the King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Twentieth day of February 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 John Bannester< no role > an Infant then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Joseph Dawson< no role > , James Gill< no role > , William Buxton< no role > , John Hall< no role > , John Cockra [..]
Thomas Douglas< no role > , John Williams< no role > , David Smart< no role > , John Free< no role > , Samuel Woolley< no role > , John Shenley< no role > , Thomas
Horn< no role > , James Peters< no role > and Thomas Ferrens< 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
when how and by what Means the said John Bannestercame to his Death doup [..]
their Oath say, That the said John Bannester on the Eighteenth day of February in the
Year aforesaid being in a New built House situate in Wimpole Street , in the Parish of St.
Mary le bon in the County of Middlesex , and the said John Bannester then and there coming
down the Stairs in the said House, which were unfinished and without any Banisters, It so
happened that the said John Bannester then and there Accidentally Casually and Misfortune
fell off and from the said Stairs, being two Stories high, upon and against a Carpenter's Working
Bench standing on the Ground Floor in the said House, by Means whereof he the said John Bannester
did then and there by the fall aforesaid receive one Mortal Bruise on the rightside of the Head
of him the said John Bannester, of which said Mortal Bruise he the said John Bannester from the said
Eighteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish of St. James within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the said County of Middlesex , until the Nineteenth day of the same Month in the same Year, did languish
and languishing did live, on which said Nineteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid, at the said
Parish of St. James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said John Bannester of the Mortal
Bruise aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the
said John Bannester 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 Joseph Dawson< 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 .

Joseph Dawson< no role > [mark] foreman