London
T Shelton
Corr. [mark]
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the parish of
Saint Botolph without Aldgate
in the Ward of Aldgate
in London aforesaid on the thirtieth day of December in the twenty ninth 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 Etc before
Thomas
Shelton< no role >
Gentleman
Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London
and Borough of Southwark
on view of the body of
John Potts< no role >
now here
lying dead by the oath of Casar Dandy Pignenit Samuel Widdell
Thomas Bolton< no role >
,
John Norwell< no role >
,
William Edward< no role >
Richard Broxup< no role >
,
Mark Groves< no role >
John Osmond< no role >
,
William Blackburn< no role >
,
John Babb< no role >
,
Richard Sanders< no role >
Stephen Workman< no role >
and
Edward Milton< no role >
good and lawful men of the City of
London
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the king when how and in what manner the said
John Potts< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said
John Potts< no role >
being a person of a weak habit of body and subject to violent fits and
convulsions on the twenty eighth day of December in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid being in a certain room
called the Parlour of a certain public Inn called the Saracens head Inn there situate was violently seized with a strong fit and convulsion and by
reason of the violence thereof did then and these fall to and against the Ground there and
[..] the said
John Potts< no role >
in the fit and convulsion
aforesaid did then and there die And so the
[..] their oath aforesaid
[..] the said
John Potts< no role >
in manner and by
the mean aforesaid By the Visitation of God
[..] natural death and by no violent means of method whatsoever In Witness where of as well
the said Coroner as the said Caesar Dandy Pignenit the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their
presence have to this Inquisition set their hand and seals the day year and place first above written.
C.D. Pignenit [mark] Foreman