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 Third day of January 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
Joseph Wilcox< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Curtis< no role > , John Skeats< no role > , Matthew Birredge< no role > , Anthony Ronelle< no role > , Matthew Gregory< no role >
John Phillips< no role > , James Chambers< no role > , John Nicholls< no role > , John Salt< no role > , Thomas Ball< no role >
Thomas Greenwood< no role > and Hugh Riddle< 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 Joseph Wilcox< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Wilcox< no role > on the Thirty
first day of December in the Year aforesaid, in the Evening, being
Walking in a certain Footway called the Willow Walk in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
and being Old, and Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened that
the said Joseph Wilcox< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell
into the Ditch on the South side of the said Willow Walk , and the
said Joseph Wilcox< no role > then and there sticking fast in the Mird and
Water in the said Ditch, he the said Joseph Wilcox< no role > then and there
departed this Life by the Inclemency of the Weather
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof fas well the
said Coroner, as the said William 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

Wm Curtis< no role > [mark] Foreman