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 Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of February in the Sixteenth 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
Ann Waite< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Jones< no role > , Henry List< no role > , James Green< no role > , Richard Tomkins< no role > , William Cook< no role >
William Coward< no role > , John Silvester< no role > , George Bride< no role > , Edward Halley< no role > Thomas
Brasier< no role > , Robert Bowen< no role > and Thomas Barr< 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 Ann Waite< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Waite< no role > Apprentice to Mrs.
Haddock Masitua maker (the wife of Thomas Haddock< no role > ) at Knightsbridge
in the County aforesaid, on the Twenty second day of January in the Year
aforesaid being walking in the Gutter at the Top on the outside of the
Dwelling House of the said Thomas Haddock< no role > and the Adjoining Houses
Situate at Knightsbridge aforesaid, and that a Great Quantity of snow
was then lying upon the said Houses, It so happened that the said Ann
Waite< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell off
and from the top of the dwelling House of John Silvester< no role > (being the second
House from the said Thomas Haddocks< no role > ) unto the Ground, whereby the said
Ann Waite< no role > did then and the receive divers Fractures in and upon
her left Thigh and left Arm, of which said Fractures she the said Ann Waite< no role >
from the said Twenty second day of January in the Year aforesaid untill
the fourteenth day of February in the Same 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 Fourteenth day of February aforesaid
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square aforesaid, she the said Ann Waite< no role > of the
mortal Fractures aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Ann Waite< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Causally and by Misfortune came to her death, and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the Said Coroner as the said James Jones< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day year
and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jas. Jones Foreman< no role >