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 seventh day of October in the Fourteenth 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
Thomas Tate< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John burtis< no role > ,
James Brown< no role > , John Adams< no role > , Charles Lansdale< no role > , Thomas Gladwin< no role > , James
Bowers< no role > , William Francis< no role > , William Steel< no role > , Joseph Everet< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role > ,
Hugh Pain< no role > and Thomas Wheeler< 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 said Thomas Tate< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Tate< no role > a Painter on the
Twenty sixth day of October in the year aforesaid being at Work upon
a Block Cornish on the outside of the dwelling House of Mrs. Delap
situate in Queen Square in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
and then and there standing upon one End of a certain Board put out of
and through one of the Windows on the Second Floor in the said House
It so happened that the said Board slipped, and that the said Thomas
Tate< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down, with the said
Board, upon the Stone Pavement before the said House, by Means whereof
the said Thomas Tate< no role > then and there received divers Bruises in and
upon his Head and Body, of which said mortal Bruises he the said
Thomas Tate< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Tate< no role > 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 John Curtis< 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 > [mark] Coroner

John Curtis< no role > [mark] Foreman