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 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 Twenty fifth day of January in the Eighth 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
Thomas Cooper< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George
Davis< no role > , Robert Bigby< no role > , James Mason< no role > , John Buxon< no role > , William Smith< no role >
Joseph Baylys< no role > , Joseph Cooper< no role > , Ellis Evans< no role > , George Tate< no role > , Emanuel Wallis< no role > ,
Ellis Trivallin< no role > and John Harriott< no role > , good and lawful Men of the Said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Thomas Cooper< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Cooper< no role > a Porter, on
the Twenty second day of January in the Year aforesaid, having a large
Books Case upon his Shoulders, and carrying the same down certain stairs
called Hungerford Stairs situate and being in the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid; It so happened
that the said Thomas Cooper< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell down upon the said Stone Stairs, by the violence of which
said fall the Neck of him the said Thomas Cooper< no role > was then and there
dislocated, of which said Dislocation he the said Thomas Cooper< no role > languished
until the Twenty third day of the same Month in the same Year at the
said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid,
and then and there of the Dislocation aforesaid did are. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said
Thomas Cooper< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness
where of as well the said Coroner, as the said George Davis< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his 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

Geo Davis< no role > Foreman