City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this 27th. day of Septr.
1773 at the Parish of St. James within the
Liberty of Westmr . in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the death of
Edward Condon< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Oliver Ball< no role > at the White Horse Castle Street Oxford
Market Carpenter on his Oath saith That he was
employed by James Ashlee< no role > who keeps the Tennis Court
in Great Windmill Street St. James to make a new
Skylight France for the Tennis Court. That he with
his Men this Morning took out the old Skylight
France, and had made a Scaffold by putting a Ladder
upon two Beams at one End at the top of the
Tennis Court and some Boards upon the Ladder, Says
that Edward Condon< no role > that Deced was a Laborer and was
Standing upon the Scaffold, Says that a Glazier was
at the top of the Tennis Court on the out side, intending
to take out the Glass from the old Skylight, That he
asked a Carpenter Dept. Servant for a Hammer and
Carpenter Answered that there was one in his Bag
in the Gutter, and the Glazier went there and Dept.
heard the Tools in the Bag rattle, Says that the Glazier
immediately crept up the Tyles until he got above
the top of the old Window, within a Yard of this
Dept. when he Jumped down from thence upon the Scaffold
abovementioned on the inside, (being about four feet)
where the Deced was standing at Work, Says that
the Ladder which supported the Boards on which the
Deced was standing broke, and the Deced fell down
from thence into the Tennis Court, and the Glazier
likewise fell down into the Court, Says that the
Ladder broke by the Weight and force of the Glazier