City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of August in the Third
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 and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Mathew Mason< no role > (Suspected to be murdered)
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Whitmey< no role > , John Gilliam< no role > , James Sams< no role > , William
Hudson< no role > , John Hook< no role > , Christopher Anderson< no role > , Bright Hemings< no role > , John Winder< no role > , John Gould< no role >
Roger Hughes< no role > , John Wright< no role > , John Monk< no role > , Robert Turner< no role > , John Mason< no role > , William Jones< no role > and John Baber< no role > .
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged
to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said Mathew Mason< no role >
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mathew Mason< no role > on the Sixth day
of August in the Year aforesaid, and for a long time before, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did labor and languish under a grievous Disease
of Body, to Wit, an Inflamation in his Bowels; and that on the said Sixth day of August
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
He the said Mathew Mason< no role > departed this Life, by the Visitation of God, in a natural way,
to Wit, of the Disease and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any Hurt or Injury received
from William Mason< no role > the Father of the said Mathew Mason< no role > , or any other Person
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Thomas Whitmey< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Whitmey [mark] Foreman