London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Brides in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the first day of February in the thirty seventh year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 William Richardson< no role > now here lying dead by
the oath of William Austin< no role > William Cheesman< no role > James Venables< no role > Thomas Bird< no role > Joseph Badhouse< no role >
William Drew< no role > John Forbes< no role > Samuel Bonner< no role > William Heath< no role > John Witherick James Voller< no role >
and Richard Read< 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 William Richardson< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that the said William Richardson< no role > on the thirty first day of January
in the year aforesaid being a prisoner in his Majestys prison of the Fleet there
situate and being then and there sick and diseased in his body It so happened that
the said William Richardson< no role > on the said thirty first day of January in the year aforesaid
within the said prison of the said sickness and disease did die and so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said William Richardson< 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 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< no role > Foreman