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

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifth Day of Febuary in the Tenth 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 sorth, 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
John Oriel< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Roper< no role > , Henry Finch< no role > , David Lindsay< no role > , John Cartharey< no role > , William Watts< no role > ,
James Barber< no role > , James Gardener< no role > , Jonathan Flockton< no role > , John Vanden< no role >
John Williams< no role > , Alexander Webster< no role > , Henry Timberly< no role > and Philip
Norman< 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 that what Means the said John Oriel came to
his, Death, do upon their Oath say, That the Said John Oriel a Bricklayer on the
Second day of February in the Year aforesaid being at Work on the Outside
of the dwelling House of John Roper< no role > situate in St. Martins Lane in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then
and there standing upon a scaffold near the top of the said House, It so happened
that the said John Oriel Accidentally Casually and by misfortune fell of
and from the said scaffold into the said Lane, and there by did then and
there receive divers mortal Wounds and Fractures in and upon his Head,
of which said mortal Wounds and Fractures he the said John Oriel then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said John Oriel in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his
Death, and not otherwise. In witness whereof ad well the said
Coronor as the said John Roper< 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
Race first above Written.
Tho Prickard< no role > Coronor
John Roper< no role > Foreman