City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this First day of Decr.
1774 at the Parish of St. Margaret within the
Liberty of Westmr . in the County of Midsex upon
an Inquisition touching the death of a Man
unknown lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

James Gregory< no role > of Whitehall Yeoman of the
Guards on his Oath saith, That he was on Tuesday
last (Novr. 29.) on Duty attending his Majesty to
the Parliament House Says that when his Majesty
was in his State Coach in Old Palace Yard Dept. being
on the near side of the Coach, saw a Man on the
Ground with his pace downwards on the offside
of the Coach between the fore and hinder Wheels
but Dept. did not see either of the Wheels pass
over the Deced, who lay upon the Ground and
did not move, as Dept. could see, nor can Dept.
say how the Deced came to the Ground.

James Gregory< no role >

Samuel Williams< no role > one of the Yeomen of the Guards
on his Oath saith That he was on Duty on Tuesday
last attending his Majesty to the Parliament House
and being on the offside of his Majesty's Coach in
Old Palace Yard in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr .
where there was a very great Crowd of People
about the Coach, that the Deced was there and
Pushing one of the Constables who was Guarding his
Majesty, that the Constable and others were pusing
the Deced, in order to keep him from the Coach, that
the Deced fell down just before the off fore Wheel of
his Majesty's Coach and that the forewheel immediately
passd over his Back and that the hinder wheel either
touched or went very near the Deced's Head, who then
lay with his face down wards, but Dept. cannot say
That his fall was caused by the Constable or the other
People pushing him, the Croud being then a great

Saml. Williams< no role >