London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is
to say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the seventh day of March in the thirty fifth 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
Richard Moss< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Plaskett< no role > William Finsbed Robert
McDowell John Blackett< no role > John Jones< no role > John Dolphin< no role > James Atchison Thomas Frith< no role > William
Brownjohn Robert Read< no role > Ralph Monk< no role > Josiah Dean< no role > and William Bumstead< no role > good and
lawful men of the City of London aforesaid 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 Richard Moss< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Richard Moss< no role >
on the fifth day of March in the year aforesaid being employed in the driving of a
certain Cart drawn by three horses along and through a certain publick street and Kings
highway there called Ludgate hill situate in the parish of Saint Martin Ludgate in the Ward aforesaid It so happened that the said Richard Moss< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell to the Ground there and the near wheel of the said Cart
did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune go upon and pass over the
head of him the said Richard Moss< no role > by means whereof the said Richard Moss< no role > did then
and there receive one mortal fracture upon the scull of him the said Richard Moss< no role > of
which said Mortal fracture he the said Richard Moss< no role > as well at the said parish
of Saint Martin Ludgate in the Ward of Farringdon without as also at the said parish
of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live and afterwards to wit on the same day and
year aforesaid at the parish and Ward last aforesaid in London aforesaid of the said
mortal fracture did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said Richard Moss< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and
by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Plaskett< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 forst above written

Wm Plaskett< no role > [mark] Foreman