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 August in the Thirteenth 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
William Whitcome< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Gilbert< no role > ,
Henry Hassell< no role > , Abraham Atterwell< no role > , John Baynes< no role > , William Willian< no role > , James Frith< no role > , Thomas Clough< no role > ,
Thomas Bevan< no role > , John Mc Cloghlin< no role > , Joseph Shore< no role > , John Ward< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , Christopher
Mettelton< no role > , and John Wilson< 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 William Whitcome came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Whitcome of the Age of Eighteen
Months on the Twenty third day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at a certain Place called the Willow Walk there, being
Playing in the said Walk, it to happened that he the said William Whitcome accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell into a certain Ditch or peice of Water running a long
the said Walk and in the Waters thereof was then and there suffocated and Drowned, of
which said Suffocation and [..] the said William Whitcome then and there
instantly Died. And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the
said William Whitcome in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune come to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the
rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year and at the Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Gilbert< no role > Forman