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 Eighth day of March in the SixthYear 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 > Gentle
man Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on view of the
Body of Thomas Cursens< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Doughty< no role > ,
Henry Friday< no role > , James Dunn< no role > , John Darippey< no role > , Samuel Webb< no role > , Robert Bray< no role > ,
John Banks< no role > , Silvester Freeman< no role > , William Whitehead< no role > , George Hewett< no role > ,
Robert Gildon< no role > and John Lomus< 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 Thomas CursensCame to his Death, do
upon their Oath say That on the Sixth day of March in the Year aforesaid the said Thomas
Cursens a Carpenter being at Work on a New built House belonging to the Right Honourable
Granville Earl Gower situate in Whitehall at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the said
County of Middlesex , and being then and there standing upon the top of the Brick Wall of the said
House, in the Front thereof, It so happened that the said Thomas Cursens did then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fall off and from the top of the Wall, on which the said
Thomas Cursens was standing, being three Stories high, unto and upon the Ground by reason whereof
he the said Thomas Cursens did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive divers
mortal Wounds in and upon his Head and right Shoulder, of which said mortal Wounds he the said
Thomas Cursens from the said Sixth day of March in the Year aforesaid until the Seventh day of
the same Month and Year at the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St. Margaret within
the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said
Seventh day of March in the Year aforesaid, he the said Thomas Cursens, at the Hospital aforesaid
of the said mortal Wounds did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do
say, that the said Thomas Cursens 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 John Doughty< 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 > Coroner .

Jno. DoughtyForeman