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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first 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 Edward Peter then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Elias Petit Thomas Read< no role > , Bevan Smith< no role > , James
Newman< no role > , John Cloach< no role > , William Lucas< no role > , Samuel Fumeaux,
Samuel Faulkner< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Peter Purvis< no role > , Henry
Jones< no role > Hugh Sutherland< no role > , James Smart< no role > , James Wild< no role > Francis Hill< no role > ,
Joseph Canter< no role > , Thomas Copstick< no role >
and Charles Threser< 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 Edward Petre< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Petre< no role > on the said
Twenty first day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and
in the Liberty and County aforesaid, being employed to unlead a certain
Dray then and there loaded with three Butts of Brer. It so happened
that in unloading, the first of the said Butts, Accidentally casually
and by Misfortune the said first Butt for want of Judgment in him the said
Edward Petre< no role > forcibly [..] off and from the said fray to and against
the Person of him the said Edward Petre< no role > and by the ford and weight thereof
did then and there throw him the said Edward Petre< no role > to the ground and
that One End of the said Butt Pitched upon the Breast of him the said
Edward Petre< no role > by means thereof he the said Edward Petre< no role > then and there
received divers mortal Bruises in and upon his Body of which said
mortal Bruises he the said Edward Petre< no role > then and there instantly dew.
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the
said Edward Petre< 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 Elias Petit Foreman
of the said Jurors on the Be [..] 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 above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Eliot Petit< no role > Foreman