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

An Inquisition Intended taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westmr . within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of May in the Third
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 John Louch< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Henry Slawson< no role > , Robert Burn< no role > , John Price< no role >
Samuel Tyler< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , John Cartwright< no role > , Robert Bramham< no role > , Thomas Manlove< no role > ,
William Green< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Samuel Jefferies< no role > , Abraham Terry< no role > and John Short< no role >
good and lawful Men of of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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 John
Louchcame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty second day of April in the
Year aforesaid the said John Louch being a Coachman and carefully driving a Chariot drawn by a pair of
Horses along the Road in a certain Place called Abery Farm leading from Ranclagh towards Buckingham Gate
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid; And it being
near twelve of the Clock at Night of the said Twenty second day of April, and very dark, It so happened
that a Person unknown was then and there driving a Coach drawn by a pair of Horses in the said
Road towards Ranllagh aforesaid, and running against the said Chariot being very Dark as aforesaid,
whereby the said John Louch Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell from the Box of the said Chariot
unto the Ground, and then and thereby the fall aforesaid did receive a Mortal Fracture in his right Leg,
of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Louch from the said Twenty second day of April in the Year
aforesaid, until the Sixteenth day of May in the same Year, at the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St.
Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said sixteenth
day of May in the Year aforesaid, in the Hospital aforesaid, he the said John Louch of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did Dye; And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Louch 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 Henry Slawson
Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the Jurors, 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 .

Henry Slawson< no role > Foreman