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 Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of November in the Fourteenth 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
Thomas Heritage< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Ashmore< no role > , Richard Porter< no role > , Thomas Hunt< no role > , William Steel< no role > , John Perry< no role > , George
Lyre< no role > , John Davis< no role > , William Timbury< no role > , James Jacob< no role > , John Hackman< no role > , John
Masters< no role > and John Cartwright< 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 Thomas Heritage came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Heritage a Carpenter on
the Thirty first day of July in the Year aforesaid being Work on the
outside of the dwelling House of Richard Leeton< no role > situate in Petty France
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then
and there standing upon a Ladder and sawing a piece of Timber, which
gave way, and the said Thomas Heritage Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell off and from the said Ladder unto the Ground, and thereby
then and there received one mortal Wound and Contusion in and upon the
right side of his Head, of which said mortal Wound and Contusion he the
said Thomas Heritage from the said Thirty first day of July in the Year
aforesaid until the Nineteenth day of November in the same Year at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live, on which said Nineteenth day of November aforesaid
at the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid he the said Thomas Heritage
of the mortal Wound and Contusion aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas Heritage
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 Joseph Ashmore< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Jos. Ashmore< no role > [mark] Foreman