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 Eighth day of September in the twenty eighth
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 Gillingham< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Masson< no role > , Morris Mabley< no role > , Edward Gooch< no role > , Thomas
Bray< no role > , Robert Lincoln< no role > , John Shillita< no role > , Elexander Peffers< no role > , William Jordan< no role > ,
Thomas Gosheron< no role > , John Watson< no role > , Edward Lowe< no role > , William Young< no role >
and Robert Minns< 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 Thomas Gillingham< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , that the said Thomas Gillingham< no role >
a Carpenter, on the thirtieth day of August in the year aforesaid,
being at Work in the Dwelling House of Messrs. Stanger and
Griffin situate in St. James Street in the Parish of St. James
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there standing
with one Foot upon a Copper and the other upon a Bracket against
the Wall of the said House. It so happened that the said Thomas
Gillingham< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, fell
down across the back of a Chair, and thereby received a mortal
bruise upon and near unto his private parts, of which said
mortal Bruise the the said Thomas Gillingham< no role > at the said
Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
from the said thirtieth day of August in the year aforesaid, until
the seventh day of September in the same year, did languish
and languishing did live, on which said seventh day of September
in the year aforesaid, he the said Thomas Gillingham< no role > at the
Parish last mentioned of the mortal Bruise aforesaid did die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say
that the said Thomas Gillingham< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came
to his Death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner, as the said James Masson< 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 > [mark] Coroner
James Masson< no role > [mark] Foreman