City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at Knightsbridge in the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the thirty first day of January in the twenty second 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
George Wooley< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward
Chandler< no role > , Frederick Hawes< no role > , William Gee< no role > , John Mallard< no role > , Avery
Tyrrell< no role > , Henry List< no role > , Thomas Barbar< no role > , William Hinslelwood< no role > ,
James Jobbins< no role > , Robert Boucher< no role > , Annishall Windsley< no role > , William
Carter< no role > and Reuben Jackson< 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 George Wooley< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Wooley< no role > on the
Twenty ninth day of January in the Year aforesaid being
with his Brother William Wooley< no role > another Infant of the Age
of Seven Years at Play in the Dwelling House of George
Wooley< no role > their Father situate at Knightsbridge in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And
the said William Wooley< no role > the Infant then and there taking up
a Pistol loaded with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet (the
said William Wooley< no role > not knowing that the same was leaden)
It so happened that the said Pistol Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune went off and was discharged, and that he the said
George Wooley< no role > by Means of the Discharge and going off of the said
Pistol as aforesaid did then and there receive on mortal Wound
in and through his Head, of which said mortal Wound he the
said George Wooley< no role > then and there instantly died, And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
George Wooley< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his death
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said Edward Chandler< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Edwd. Chandler< no role > [mark] Foreman