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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of September 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
Edward Condon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Watson< no role > , John Wotton< no role > , John Bruce< no role > , Henry Hains< no role > , William Pennyfold< no role > , John Blunt< no role >
George Powell< no role > , James Marchant< no role > , John Weldall< no role > , Moses Phillips< no role > , John Pohl< no role > ,
Francis Hunter< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , Andrew Shepherd< no role > , John Foster< no role > ,
and John Marzinghy< 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 Edward Condon came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Condon a Laborer on the
said Twenty seventh day of September in the Year aforesaid being at Work
upon the Tennis Court in Windmill Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there standing upon a
Scaffold on the inside of the said Building near the Skylight It so happen'd
that the Ladder which supported the said Scaffold then and there broke,
and that the said Edward Condon< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell down unto and upon the Floor of the said Tennis Court , by Reason
whereof the said Edward Condon did then and there receive divers mortal
Bruises in the Body, & Fractures in and upon the Right Arm, and the
left Thigh of him the said Edward Condon, of which said mortal Bruises
and Fractures he the said Edward Condon then and there instantly died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Edward Condon in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas
Watson< 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

Thos. Watson< no role > Foreman