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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth day of June in the twenty fifth
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 Foxcroft< no role > Gentn . then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Cunningham< no role > , James Warne< no role > . William Wilkes< no role > , George
Darling< no role > , Timothy Davies< no role > , Samuel Wolley< no role > , William Perkins< no role > , Henry
Martindale< no role > , Robert Griffin< no role > , Benjamin, Martindale, Evan Evans< no role > , Thomas
Stanger< no role > , and Simon Leafe< 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 Foxcroft< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Foxcroft< no role > on
the said twenty ninth Day of June in the Year aforesaid, having in his
Hands a certain Gun, charged and loaded with Gunpowder and a leaden
Bullet in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid
and there going to draw the said Charge, It so happened that the said Gun
Accidentally went off. and was discharged by reason whereof he the said
Thomas Foxcroft Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune did then
and there receive from the leaden Bullet aforesaid or discharged and
accidentally going off out of the said Gun as aforesaid by the force
of the Gunpowder aforesaid, one Mortal Wound in and through the Head.
of him the said Thomas Foxcroft< no role > of which said mortal Wound
he the said Thomas Foxcroft, then and there died: And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, That the said
Thomas Foxcroft, in manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally,
casually, and by misfortune came to his Death. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said John Cunningham< 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, above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Cunningham< no role > Foreman