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 twentieth day of January in the thirty eighth
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
John Weston< no role >
now hew lying dead by the oath of
John Forster< no role >
,
Thomas Jolley< no role >
,
William Cheesman< no role >
William Collins< no role >
,
John Fisher< no role >
.
William Challes< no role >
,
James Vollor< no role >
,
Samuel Bonner< no role >
, Richard
Bryon,
John Danell< no role >
,
Chilip Butcher< no role >
, and
William Frazer< 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
Weston came to his death say upon their oath that the said
John Weston< no role >
on the
nineteenth day of January 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 the said
John Weston< no role >
afterwards to wit on the same day and year but aforesaid within the prison
aforesaid situate in the parish and ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid of the said
sickness and disease 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 above written
John [mark] Forster< no role >
Foreman