London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say as the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Brides in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the twelfth day of April 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 Ravenscroft< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of William Challices, Robert Mortimer< no role > , Andrew
Allison, Nathaniel Bannister< no role > , John Fisher< no role > , William Heath< no role > , Samuel Bonner< no role > , William
Cheeseman< no role > James Venables< no role > , John Daniel< no role > , Daniel Allen< no role > , Joseph Bedhouse< no role > , Samuel
Beck,< no role > and James Vollar< 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 Bavenscroft< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said John Ravenscroft< no role > on the ninth day of April in the year
aforesaid being a prisoner in his Majestys prison of the Fleet there situate and being
then and there Sick and languishing. It so happened that the said John Ravenscroft< no role >
on the same day and year last aforesaid within the said prison 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 Challices the foreman
of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows on their presence have
to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.

Williams Challices