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 Farrigdon
without in London aforesaid on the eighteenth day of AugustMarchin the thirty seventh
year of two 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 Teresa Smith
now here lying dead by the oath of John Forster< no role > William Challices< no role > John Hollington< no role >
Joseph Bedhouse< no role > James Major< no role > Nathaniel Bannister< no role > Philip Butcher< no role > Richard Read< no role >
Samuel Bonner< no role > James Venables< no role > William Heath< no role > William Frasier< no role > and John
Daniel< 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 Teresa Smith came to her death say upon
their oath that the said Teresa Smith on the said eighteenth day of August 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 tha the said Teresa Smith on the said eighteenth
day of August in the year aforesaid 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 Forster< 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

John [mark] Forster< no role >