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. James within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Fourth
Day of April 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 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 Griffiths< no role > an Infant then and there
lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Willdon, Samuel Chilvers< no role > , Thomas Price< no role > , Charles Hunt< no role > ,
Claude George< no role > , John Cochran< no role > , John Jennings< no role > , Samuel Barker< no role > , William Pepking< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > ,
Henry Sudbury< no role > , Joseph Parfect< no role > , Joseph Hedge< no role > & George Garrad< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chose
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 Griffiths< no role > came to his Death do upon
their Oath say. That on the Second day of April in the Year aforesaid, one John Sampson< no role > late of the
Parish of St. Mary le bon in the said County of Middlesex Laborer, being carefully driving of a certain Carriage
called a Truck, loaded with a piece of Timber, and drawn by three Horses, in a certain Street or Highway called
Warwick Street, and being on the right side of his Horses, with a Rope called the Leader in his hand, and
then and there turning the Corner out of the said Street or Highway into Beet Street, in the said Parish
of St. James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And the said John Griffiths< no role > then and there passing
along the said Street called Beet Street, and coming behind the said John Sampson< no role > and unseen
by him, It so happened that the foremost End of the said piece of Timber then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune struck against the right side of the Head of the said John Griffiths< no role > , whereby
the said John Griffiths< no role > did then and there receive one Mortal Fracture on the said right said of his
Head, of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Griffiths< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Griffiths< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise.
And that the said piece of Timber was the Cause of the Death of the said John Griffiths< no role > , and is of the
Value of twelve Shillings, and the Property and in the Possession of Mason Cornish< no role > of little
Marlborough Street in the said Parish of St. James Carpenter, or of his Assigns. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Willdon< 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 .

Thos Willdon< no role > [mark] Foreman