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
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of December in the Twelfth 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 Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Elizabeth Pember< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Briscall< no role > , Henry Pickup< no role > , Francis Brooks< no role > , John Burgess< no role > , Samuel Fansett< no role > ,
Robert Parker< no role > ,John Lumsdall< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > , Thomas Carey< no role > , James Bean< no role > ,
James Don< no role > , and Isaac Rivers< 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 Elizabeth Pember< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Pember< no role > , one of the
Nurses at the Westminster Hospital , situate in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Thirtieth day November in
the Year aforesaid, being in the said Hospital, having a large Stone Jugg
and other things in both her hands, and going up the Stone Stairs there,
It so happened that the said Elizabeth Pember< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell down the said Stairs, unto the bottom thereof,
and thereby did then and there receive one mortal Wound and Bruise in
and upon the top of her Head, of which said mortal Wound and Bruise she
the said Elizabeth Pember< no role > from the said thirtieth day of November in the Year
aforesaid until the Twenty fourth day of December in the same Year at the
Hospital aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said
Twenty fourth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid she the said Elizabeth Pember< no role > of the mortal Wound
and Bruise aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Pember< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death,
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said John Briscall< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Briscall< no role > [mark] Foreman