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. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Third day of March in the Twelfth 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
George Clarke< no role > a Laborer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Mason
Cornish< no role > , Charles Williams< no role > , James Barr< no role > , William Horsey< no role > , John Gee< no role > , John Read< no role >
David Lecount< no role > , John Coates< no role > , Thomas Carter< no role > , Edward Martin< no role > ,
Richard Burton< no role > , and James Urquhart< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said George Clarke< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said George Clarke< no role > on the Twenty-
third day of February in the Year aforesaid being upon a certain Ladder
and Lighting a Lamp in Somerset Street in the County aforesaid, It so
happened that the Ladder, on which the said George Clarke< no role > was standing,
turned round, and that the said George Clarke< no role > then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune, off and from the said Ladder, fell down and
strick upon certain Iron Rails, whereby the said George Clarke< no role > did then
and there receive one Mortal Wound in and upon his left Leg, of which
said mortal Wound he the said George Clarke< no role > from the said Twenty third
day of February in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the
same Month and Year, at the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live
on which said Twenty ninth day of the same Month and Year, at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said George Clarke< no role >
of the mortal Wound aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid do say, that
the said George Clarke< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in
manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his death, and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Mason Cornish< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Mason Cornish Foreman