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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at Knightbridge 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 Twentieth day of April in the twenty fifth
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 Thomas Dove< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Coward< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > Francis
Palmer< no role > , Daniel Walford< no role > , John Elwell< no role > , John Bowler< no role >
Nathaniel Butcher< no role > , John Naughan< no role > , William
Keeple< no role > , Thomas Bullen< no role > , Joseph Thorley< no role > and
George Butiingsworth 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 Dove< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Dove< no role > on the
Nineteenth day, of April in the Year aforesaid being
Driving a certain Empty Coal Waggon drawn by fou [..]
Highway at Knight bridge in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and
there Riding upon the Shaft of the said Waggon, It so
happened that the said Horses took fright, and that the said
Thomas Dove< no role > in endeavouring to stop them, was then and
there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, thrown off and
from the said Shaft unto the Ground, by reason where of
both the Near Wheels of the said Waggon passed over the Head
of the said Thomas Dove< no role > , whereby he received a mortal Fracture
in and upon the Right side of his Head, of which said Mortal
Fracture he the said Thomas Dove< no role > then and there instantly
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Thomas Dove< 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 Thomas
Coward< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos Coward< no role > Foreman