City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

In 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 sixth day of July in the Fourteenth 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 Andrews< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Wall< no role > , John Merithorp< no role > , Jonathan Jackson< no role > , Joseph Elebeck< no role > , John Covill< no role >
Adam Dunford< no role > , Walter Bannister< no role > , John Nalder< no role > , John Lees< no role > , Joseph Fisher< no role >
Nicholas Bull< no role > , Matthew Wall< no role > , George Beard< no role > , John Hudson< no role > , Paul Carr< no role >
Thomas Osborn< no role > and Frederick Westerline< 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 Andrews< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Andrews< no role > a Laborer on the
said Twenty sixth day of July in the Year aforesaid being at Work upon
the House of Sir George Saville< no role > Baronet situate in Leicester Square in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being
then and there standing, with another Laborer, upon a Scaffold on the
outside of the said House, at the Height of three Stories, It so happened that
the said Thomas Andrews< no role > , in throwing down a large piece of Old Lead,
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down off and from the said
Scaffold upon the Iron Rails in the Front of the said House, by Means
whereof the said Thomas Andrews< no role > then and there rec [..] ed two Wounds
in and through his Body, of which said mortal Wounds [..] the said Thomas
Andrews< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Andrews< 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 John Wall< 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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
John Wall< no role > Foreman