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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth eighth 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 William Gust then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Benjamin Boydon< no role > , Thomas Jackson< no role > , Theophilus
Sawyer< no role > , John Carmichael< no role > , Robert Petter< no role > , Bassett Lee< no role >
William Wilson< no role > , Isaac Bingham< no role > , Edward Gale< no role > , Thomas
Haringdale< no role > , Richard Blizard< no role > , William Baker< no role > , Edward
Field< no role > and Simon Webb< 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 William Gust came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said William Gust< no role > an Infant
of the Age of ten Years on the Twenty fifth day of April in
the Year aforesaid being in the Publick Street or Highway
called Piccadilly in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that a Man
unknown was then Riding upon a certain Bay Horse in the
said Publick Street or Highway It so happened, that unknown to the
said Man unknown) the said William Gust was then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune forced to the Ground,
and that the said Bay Horse with both his feet on the Near side
trod upon the said William Gust, by Means whereof the said
William Gust the Infant then and there received one Mortal
Bruise in and upon the right side of his Body of [..]
of which said Mortal Bruise he the said William Gust, at the said Parish
last mentioned within the Liberty and County aforesaid then did die,
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the
said William Gust 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 Benjamin Boydon< 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 .

Benj Boydon< no role > Foreman