Middlesex
(to wit)}

AN Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the House of Correction in the Parish of
Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex , the twenty ninths Day of December in the twenty eighth 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, Etc, before Richard Collett< no role > one of the Coroner s of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on View of the Body of John Barns< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Fleming< no role > Andrew
Blackie, Robert Winn< no role > , Thomas Morton< no role > , John Harle< no role > and John Yates< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen as by Law is required, And of George Hodgson< no role > , Thomas
Spenceley, Samuel Taylor< no role > , Jonas Sayer< no role > , Robert Evans< no role > and Thomas Tilloness< no role > ,
Prisoners within the said Prison, which said lawful Men and Prisoners being then and there duly Sworn and Charged, to enquire
for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said John Barnes< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath, say, That that the said John
Barnes, being Prisoner in the House of Correction aforesaid, in the Parish
and County aforesaid, on the Twenty eighth Day of December in the
Year aforesaid, at the House of Correction aforesaid, departed this
Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way (to wit) of a decline
and Rupture, and not otherwise

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Fleming< 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 and Year first above-mentioned.

Richd:Collett< no role > [mark] Coroner [mark]
Thos. Fleming [mark] Foreman [mark]