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 John the Evangelist
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 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
Edward Padget< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Peter
Jackson< no role > , Alexander Sonelley< no role > , William Griffiths< no role > , James Lenox< no role > , John White< no role >
Abraham Apleton< no role > , James Vaughan< no role > , Thomas Falkner< no role > , John Heath< no role > , William
Madox< no role > , Robert Watson< no role > and William Green< 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 Padget came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the First day of August in the Year
aforesaid, a Man, commonly called Thomas Sober< no role > , having several small
Canons, loaded with Gum Powder and Wadding, to Fire upon Mill Bank,
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And
the said Edward Padget being then and there in Liquer, and going
before one of the said Canon, as the same was discharged, It so happened
that the said Edward Padget by the Wadding aforesaid so discharged out
of the Canon aforesaid, then and there Accidentally Casually and by
misfortune received one wound and Contusion in and upon his left
Thigh, of which said mortal Wound and Contusion he the said Edward
Padget from the said First day of August in the Year aforesaid, untill
The Third day of the same [..] the Parish [..] the Liberty
and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which
said Third day of August in the Year aforesaid, in the Parish Liberty
and County aforesaid, he the said Edward Padget of the Mortal Wound
and Contresion aforesaid, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Edward Padget in manner
and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to his death, and not otherwise. In Witness where of
as well the said Coroner, as the said Peter Jackson< 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] Corner
Peter Jackson [mark] Foreman