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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth day of October 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
John Legg< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Charles
Smith< no role > , James James< no role > John Seaman< no role > James Knowles< no role > James
Frazer< no role > , Alexander Copland< no role > Edward Holmes< no role > , George Hitchcock< no role > ,
Richard Precious< no role > Henry Kelly< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Richard Sills< no role > , James
Milton< no role > William Morris< no role > & Joseph Poynton< 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 John Legg< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Legg< no role > on the
Eighteenth day of October (at Night) in the Year aforesaid
being in a certain Hay loft in the Stable Yard of George Bolton< no role >
situate and being in the Parish aforesaid within the said
Liberty and County, (in which Hay loft the said John
Legg< no role > usually stept) And that it so happened that the
said John Legg< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell out of and from the said Hayloft unto
and upon the Stone [..] in the Stable Yard
aforesaid, whereby the said John Legg< no role > did then and
there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive
one mortal Contusion in and upon the back part of his
Head, of which said mortal Contusion he the said John
Legg< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said John Legg< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his death.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Charles Smith< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Charles Smith< no role > Foreman