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 Eighteenth day of December in the Thirty first
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 a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Askey< no role > , Robert Moore< no role > , John Hideman, Robert Turner< no role >
Jonathan Waite< no role > , William Skirvin< no role > , George Woods< no role > , Thomas Parr< no role >
David Brough< no role > , Thomas Haigh< no role > , Owen Cowoly< no role > , Thomas Venham< no role >
John Taylor< 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 Man unknown came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown on the Fifteenth
day of December in the Year aforesaid was going along Scotland Yard in the Parish
of Saint Margaretand the Wind being very high It so happened
that a certain Carthen Pot was blown down off and from the Top of the Chimney
of a House in Scotland Yard aforesaid upon the Head of him the said Man
unknown by means whereof the said Man unknown Accidentally casually and
by Misfortune received a mortal Wound and Fracture in and upon the Top of his Head
of which said Mortal Wound and Fracture he the said Man unknown at the said
Parish of Saint Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid from the said Fifteenth
Day of December in the Year aforesaid, until the Sixteenth day of the same Month
and Year did languish and languishing did live, on which said Sixteenth day of
December at the said Parish of Saint Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
he the said Man unknown of the Mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid did die. And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Man unknown
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 Robert Askey< 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

Robt. Askees< no role > [mark] Foreman