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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of February in the Fourteenth Year
of the Regin 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 Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Barlow< no role > , Samuel Roome< no role > , Thomas Evans< no role > , Paul Turner< no role > , Edward Clemson< no role > , John
Midlane< no role > , Richard Westmecott< no role > . John Ward< no role > , John Chipps< no role > , William Minzies< no role >
John Hogard< no role > and William Whetstone< 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 John Smith< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Smith< no role > on the Ninth day of
February in the Year aforesaid, being walking along the Road or King Highway
at Pimlico in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
and being then and there hastily crossing the said Road, It so happened that
the said John Smith< no role > , by a Horse then passing along the said Road, was
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune forced down
to the Ground near unto a certain Loaded Cart then and there drawn
by two Horses in the said Road, and that the Off Wheel of the said Cart
then and there passed over the Thighs of the said John Smith< no role > , by Means
whereof both the Thighs of the said John Smith< no role > Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune were then and there Fractured, of which said
mortal Fractures he the said John Smith< no role > from the said Ninth day of
February in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of the
same Month and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth
day of February aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, he the said John Smith< no role > of the mortal Fractures aforesaid,
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say, that the said John Smith< 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
John Barlow< 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 abovewirtten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Barlow< no role > [mark] Foreman