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

And Inquisition Indented taken for Our sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Margaretin 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 Fifth day of October in the Fifth 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 Edward Pearce< no role > , then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Jonathan Marriott< no role > William Key< no role > , Peter Donn< no role > , George King< no role > , Thomas Hook< no role > , John Tomlyn< no role > , John Barnard< no role > ,
Joseph Bourdorf< no role > , Giles Blackman< no role > , Walter Cheriton< no role > George Hawcroft< no role > Silas Payne< no role > , Alexander Smelloy< no role >
John Towers< no role > and John Short< 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 Edward Pearce< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath
say, That the said Edward Pearce< no role > on the Twentieth day of October in the Year aforesaid being Currying
certain Grey Horse in a Stable situate in three Compass Yard in the parish of St. John the Evangelist
within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, And that before the said Edward Pearce< no role > had done
Currying the said Horse, It so happened that the said Horse then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune, with one of his hinder feet, did Kick the said Edward Pearce< no role > in and upon his
Foreheas whereby the said Edward Peace did then and there [..] in and [..]
his said [..] of which said Mortal Fracture he the said Edward Pearce< no role > for the said twentieth day of October
in the Year aforesaid, until the Twenty fourth day of the same Month and Year at the Westminster Hospital
situate in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did language
and languishing did live, on which said Twenty fourth day of October in the Year aforesaid the said Edward
Pearce< no role > , at the said Hospital, of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did dye And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon
their oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Edward Pearce< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidental
Casually, and by Misfortune came to his Death,and not otherwise, And that the said Grey Horse moved to the
Death of the said Edward Pearce< no role > , is of the Value of Fifteen Shillings and the Property and in the Possession of John
Woodward< no role > of three Compass Yard in the said Parish of St. John the Evangelist Stable cooper In Witness whereof as
wall the said Coroner, as the said Jonathan Marriott< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and therest
of his said Fellows,in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hanover land Seals, the Day Year and Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jonathan Marriott< no role > [mark] Forman