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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh day of October 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 Richard Boston< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Scott< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , Richard Warddup< no role > ,
Andrew Braton< no role > , Hugh Payne< no role > , Thomas Sanders< no role > , John
Bachhurst< no role > , John Tomkinson< no role > Samuel Ray< no role > Richard Shefford< no role > ,
Aaron Loton< no role > and John Wright< 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 Richard Boston< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Richard Boston< no role > a Labourer
on the Sixth day of October, in the Year aforesaid, was going to shut up
the Vaults of John< no role > and Lucas Boleman< no role > situate in the Parish of Saint Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and carrying
up stairs one of the said Vault Doors, and being much in Liquor, so
happened that the said Richard Boston< no role > fell down under the said
Door which was very thick and heavy, by means of [..]
Richard Boston< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually, and by
Misfortune receive a violent fracture in and upon his left Arm and
Bruises in his Body, of which said mortal, Fracture and Bruises
he the said Richard Boston< no role > from the said sixth day of October in the
year aforesaid, until the said Eleventh day of the same Month at
the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of Saint Margaret
within the LIberty and County aforesaid, did languish and live, on
which said Eleventh day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Hospital
aforesaid, in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Richard
Boston< no role > of the Mortal Fracture and Bruises aforesaid did die. And so the
Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Richard
Boston< 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 Thomas Scott< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the Behalf of himself and
the Best of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisitiion at their Hands
and seals, the Day year and Place above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos. Scott< no role > Foreman