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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth day of August in the twenty third
Year of the Regin 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 Ray< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Burgan< no role > James Frost< no role > , Thomas Guy< no role >
John Leeming< no role > , George Johnson< no role > , William Brereton< no role >
Henry Mc.Laughlin< no role > Joseph Johnson< no role > , Richard Slayden< no role >
Joseph White< no role > John Winfield< no role > , and Abraham
Musgrave< 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 Ray< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Ray< no role > a Brichlayer's
Labourer on the fourth day of August in the Year aforesaid
being at Work at the House of the Right Honourable the Earl of Abercorn situate
in Grosvener Square in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and the said John Ray< no role >
being in Liquor and then and there carrying up a Board
upon a Ladder on the outside of the said House, It so
happened that the said John Ray< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the said Ladder,
near the Top thereof, unto and against the Stone Pavement
before the said House, and thereby then and there received divers
mortal Bruises and Fractures in and upon the Head, Back
and Right Arm of him the said John Ray< no role > , of which said
mortal Bruises and Fractures he the said John Ray< no role > then and
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Ray< 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 John Burgan< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
Day Year and Place abovewritten.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Jno. BurganForeman