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 Tenth day of January in the Twenty sixth
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, Corner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of John Gresham< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Price< no role > , John Robinson< no role > , John Hill< no role > ,
John Taylor< no role > , Simon Handby< no role > . Charles Vaile< no role > , James Brotherton< no role > ,
Robert Sampson< no role > , Uncel Mann< no role > , George Wilson< no role > , John D'Jersey< no role >
and William Skarving< 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 Gresham< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Gresham< no role > on the third day
of January in the Year aforesaid, being driving a certain Caravan drawn by
two Horses and loaded with Hay and Straw out of a Street called Petty France
into a Stable Yard called Bell Yard in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid and passing under the Gateway leading into the said
Stable Yard. It so happened that a Wooden Beam in to top of the said
Gateway, then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
struck against the Head of and violently pressed the said John Gresham< no role >
to and against the Box of the said Caravan on which the said John Gresham< no role >
was sitting by means of which said Pressure the Back of the said John Gresham< no role >
was then and there dislocated and broken, of which said dislocation he the said
John Gresham< no role > at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid from the
said Third day of January in the Year aforesaid, until the Ninth day of the same
Month and Year, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Ninth
day of January in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, he the said John Gresham< no role > of the Dislocation aforesaid, did die And
so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John
Gresham< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof aswell
the said Coroner, as the said William Price< 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

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