London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the second day of August in the thirty fourth 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 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 Benjamin Pope< no role > now
here lying dead by the oath of John Bollard< no role > Bartholomew Fitzgerald< no role > John Crabb< no role > William
Barnett Richard Child< no role > Joseph Adams< no role > John Holland< no role > James Rogers< no role > James Venables Joseph
Badhouse Samuel Bonner< no role > Robert Mortimore 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 Benjamin Pope< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Benjamin Pope< no role >
on the first day August in the year aforesaid being a prisoner in the prison of our Lord the King of
the Fleet situate in the parish and Ward aforesaid and being then and there sick and languishing
It so happened that afterwards on the same day and year aforesaid the said Benjamin Pope< no role > within
the prison aforesaid by the visitation of God died a natural death and by no violent means
or manner whatsoever In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Bolland< no role >
the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of him and the rest of his fellows in their presence
have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten

John Bollard< no role > [mark] Foreman