London

T Shelton
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of saint Gregory by Saint [..] Paul in the Ward of Castle Baynard on the fifth day of February
in the thirty fourth 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the
body of Benjamin Pingus< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Thomas Anderson< no role > William Williams< no role >
Stephen Wolfe< no role > James Jovey< no role > William Edwards< no role > Henry Mott< no role > Henry Peace James Adam< no role >
John Fowler< no role > Tilbary William< no role > and James Finley< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London
who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
how and in what manner the said Benjamin Pingus< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath
that the said Benjamin Pingus< no role > and drivers other persons to the Jurors aforesaid as met unknown
being going to a certain place of publick amusement known by the name of the little Theatre in the
hay market situate in the parish of Saint Martin in the field in the fields in the County of Middlesex And the saw
Benjamin Pingus< no role > and the said other persons being in the passage leading to the pit of the said playhouse
It so happened that the said [..] Benjamin Pingus< no role > and divers of the said other persons
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down a flight of steps in the said passage upon one another by
means where of and by the excessive heat and pressure the said Benjamin Pingus< no role > was then and there
suffocated and smothered of which said suffocation and smothering the said Benjamin Pingus< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurous aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid oto say that the said Benjamin Pingus< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid come to his death and not otherwise. In Witness
where of as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Anderson< no role > the foreman of the said Jurous on
behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hand
and seals the day year and place first above written.

Thos Anderson< no role > [mark] foreman