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. 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 Twenty second day of January in the Twenty first 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
Elizabeth Troutwine< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Pilmer< no role > , Lionel Galley< no role > Daniel Haines< no role > , John Randall< no role > ,
George Tyler< no role > , Charles Burg< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Benjamin Higley< no role >
Joseph Salter< no role > , Patrick Burn< no role > , John Ansell< no role > , William Cowan< no role >
and David Spiers< 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 Elizabeth Troutwine came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Troutwine
on the Twentieth day of January in the Year aforesaid, in the
Evening being in the Passage in the dwelling House of James
Sculthorpe< no role > situate in Wood Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the
said Elizabeth Troutwine, not having a light, did then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fall down the Kitchen-
-Stairs, and thereby did then and there receive divers Bruises
in and upon her Body, of which said mortal Bruises she the
said Elizabeth Troutwine then and there instantly died. And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Elizabeth Troutwine, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to her death, and not otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said William Pilmer< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Wm Pilmer [mark] Foreman