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 twenty ninth day of November in the thirty seventh
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 Matthias Gandasque< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
William Austin< no role > Joseph Badhouse< no role > Robert Mortimore< no role > James Venables< no role > William Collins< no role >
James Rogers< no role > William Drew< no role > William Heath< no role > Richard John< no role > Stead Samuel< no role >
Reader William Butterfield< no role > and Robert Godge good and lawfull 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 and in what manner the said Matthias Gandasque< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said Matthias Gandasque< no role > on the
twenty eight day of November in the year aforesaid being a prisoner in his Majestys
prison of the Fleet situate in the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid and
being then and there sick and languishing It so happened that afterwards to wit
on the twenty eighth day of the same month of November in the year aforesaid the said
Matthias Gandasgue< no role > within the prison aforesaid by the visitation of God died a natural
death and by no violent means or manner whatsover In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said William Austin< no role > 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
hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten

Wm Austin [mark] Foreman