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 St. 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 First day of January in the Eighteenth 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,
Corner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Thomas Baxter< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Walter
Shropshire< no role > , William Rhodes< no role > , Thomas Cornell< no role > , George Darling< no role > , William
Abbot< no role > Thomas Lyne< no role > , William Jackson< no role > , Abraham Smith< no role > John Kemp< no role > , John
Ford< no role > , Jonathan Glover< no role > and John Hayward< 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 Thomas Baxter< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Baxter< no role > on the
Thirty first day of December in the Year aforesaid being in the Gallery
in a certain Stable Yard situate in Bond Street in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that the said
Thomas Baxter< no role > in coming down a Ladder from the said Gallery
slipped in his feet: and thereby then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune did fall upon the Stone Pavement
in the said Stable Yard, by Means whereof the said Thomas Baxter< no role >
then and there received on mortal Wound and Fracture
in and upon his Forehead over his left Eye, of which said
Mortal Wound and Fracture he the said Thomas Baxter< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Baxter< no role >
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
Walter Shropshire< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence have
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
Place abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Walter Shropshire< no role > [mark] Foreman