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 Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster within the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of March 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 Robert Parish< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon
the Oath of Solomon Morgan< no role > , John Wild< no role > , John Watkins< no role > , David Williams< no role > , Joseph Greaves< no role > , Thomas Cross< no role > , Nathaniel
Clayton< no role > , James Donn< no role > , William Huxtable< no role > , Benjamin Verling< no role > , Robert Donn< no role > , Thomas Lane< no role > , William Arnold< no role > ,
Joseph Newcome< no role > , Anthony Hodson< no role > , William Hiscock< no role > , John Wilkinson< no role > , Charles Terry< no role > and Charles Lee< 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
Robert Parishcame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Parish
on the Twenty third day of March in the Year aforesaid, (about Eleven O'Clock in the Evening) being
walking hastily along a certain Street called Carteret Street in the said Parish of St. Margaret within
the City Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Robert Parish then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down over a certain upright Post standing in the
said Street, by Means whereof he the said Robert Parish then and there, by the fall aforesaid
did receive divers Mortal Bruises in his Grorn and Bowels; of which said Mortal Bruises he
the said Robert Parish from the said Twenty third day of March in the Year aforesaid until the
Twenty fifth day of the same Month in the same Year, at the Westminster Hospital within the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Twenty
fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid, the said Robert Parish, at the said Hospital, of the Mortal Bruiser
aforesaid, did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Robert
Parish 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 Solomon
Morgan< no role > , Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his 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 .

S Morgan [mark] Foreman