City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Eighth day of
March 1766 at the Parish of St. Margaret
within the City & Liberty of Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex on an Inquisition touching the Death
of [..] Thos. Cursens< no role > lying Dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

John Lowton< no role > of Salisbury Court in Fleet Street Carpenter
on his Oath saith, that he was at work on Thursday
Morning last between Nine and ten o'Clock on a House
now Building for the Right Honourable Earl Gower in
Whitehall in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , Says
that the Deced Thomas Cursens< no role > who was a Carpenter was
likewise at work there and being with this Dept. standing
upon a Board laid upon the top of the Brick Wall of said
House, three Stories high, Says that the Deced stepped on
the outside of the Board and that said Board gave way
and Deced fell down about four feet upon a Scaffold on
the outside of said House, and from thence to the Ground
And this Dept. says that he came down soon after, and found
that the Deced was taken up, and that he was very Bloody, Says that
the Deced had a Wound on the left side of the Head, and
another on theleftRight Shoulder, Says that he fetched two
Chairmen who carried Deced upon their Horse to the Westmr.
Hospital, where his wounds were Dressed, Says that he
saw him afterwards at said Hospital and is informed that he
died there yesterday, and believes that the Deced's Death was
caused by the wounds he reced by the fall abovementioned

John Loughton< no role >