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 of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of March 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
John Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Charles
Dimmock< no role > , John Peirson< no role > , Thomas Peake< no role > , William Spenceley< no role > , George Cockett< no role >
Robert Martin< no role > , Thomas Blachall< no role > , James Vincent< no role > , William Jeffreys< no role > Thomas Green< no role >
James Walley< no role > , William Mason< no role > & Richard Parratt< no role > good and lawfull 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
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Smith< no role > on the Eighteenth day
of March in the Year aforesaid being Riding upon a certain Black Horse in
Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
That the said Horse fell down and that the said John Smith< no role > was thrown off and
from the said Horse unto the Ground, by Means whereof the said John Smith< no role >
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune received a Violent
Concussion in and upon the Brain of him the said John Smith< no role > , of
which said violent Concussion he the said John Smith< no role > on the said
Eighteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath. aforesaid [..] 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 Charles Dimmock< 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

Charles Dimmock< no role > Foreman