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 St. James, within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the twenty fourth day of August in the Second 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 Patrick Thornton< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Edward Hyett< no role > . James Butter< no role > , John Jarvis< no role > , Thomas Barton< no role > , James Eve< no role > , Benjamin Turtle< no role > ,
George Mew< no role > , Robert Loxham< no role > , Thomas Silson< no role > , Thomas Franklin< no role > , Thomas Caigow< no role > , William
Grimball< no role > , William Simmons< no role > , Peter Macklareand< no role > , Daniel Gibson< no role > , Richard Longhurst,< no role > Thomas Merr< no role > , and John Hatton< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and
Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what means the said Patrick
Thornton< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the twenty third day of August in
the Year aforesaid, the said Patrick Thornton< no role > being a Labourer, and attending upon and carrying
Materials to a Bricklayer Working on the Roof of a House situate in a certain Street called Heydon
Street in the said Parish of St. James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And the said
Patrick Thornton< no role > standing upon a Ladder, on the Roof of the said House fixed and fastened,
It so happened that the Ladder slipped, on which the said Patrick Thornton stood, by Reason
whereof he the said Patrick Thornton then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell from the Roof of the said House into the said Street, upon a Stone Pavement, and by
Means whereof did then and there receive, by the fall aforesaid, one Mortal Bruise on the back part of
his Head, of which said Mortal Bruise he the said Patrick Thornton< no role > , on the Day and Year
aforesaid, at St. George's Hospital situate in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, Died: And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the
said Patrick Thornton< 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
Edward Hyett< no role > Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors in their presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Ed Hyett< no role > [mark] Foreman