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
Third day of Augustin the FifthYear 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 man Unknown then and there lying Dead,
upon the Oath of Joseph Lindley< no role > , Henry Wotton< no role > Jonathan Claridge< no role > , John Shephard< no role > ,
Thomas Weaver< no role > , Alexander Blake< no role > , Joseph Watson< no role > , Thomas Compton< no role > , William Sinclair< no role > , Thomas
Matthews< no role > , James Clement< no role > , and John Carrington< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty only
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 Man Unknown came to his Death, do upon their
Oath say That on the first day of August in the Year aforesaid (between nine and ten of the Clock in
the Evening) a certain beachman being driving a Hackney beach drawn by two Horses in the Publick
Road or Highway leading from Ranclagh House towards Pimlice in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, And that the said Man Unknown was then and there crossing the said
Publick Road or Highway, near unto Chelsea Bridge, and before the Horses then and there drawing the said
Hackney beach, It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by misfortune, the Pole of the said Hackney
Coach, did then and there strike and go against the Breast of him the said Man Unknown, by Reason where of
the said Man Unknown did then and there receive one mortal Bruise in and upon the Breast of him
the said Man Unknown, of which said mortal Bruise he the said Man unknown then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said man Unknown
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune came to his Death, and
not otherwise. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Lindley 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 Lindley< no role > [mark] Foreman.