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. James within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Twenty sixth day of October in the Fourth
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 fo our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of David
Ryley< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of William Giddens< no role > , James Jackson< no role > , John Hamshow< no role >
John Hutchinson< no role > , John Lawson< no role > , Nicholas Gray< no role > Thomas Ashlin< no role > , Robert Johnson< no role > , William Stone< no role > , Joseph Barber< no role > , George State< no role >
Joseph Bendell< no role > , Samuel Hance< no role > , David Rees< no role > , John Delahye< no role > , Edward Mitton< no role > John Marechant< no role > and James Davies< no role >
good and lawfull 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 David Ryley came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty
-fifth day of October in the Year aforesaid the said David Ryley was found Dead in
a certain Shed or Outhouse belonging to John Thompson< no role > Victualler situate in a
certain Street called Piccadilly in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid
in the County aforesaid, And that the said David Ryley had no Marks of Violence
appearing on his Body, but Died, by a fit of an Apoplexy, or other Visitation of
God, a Natural Death. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as
the said William Giddens< 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 above written

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