City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second
day of September in the Fourth Year if 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 Richard Underwood< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Hutson< no role >
John Smith< no role > John Vown< no role > , James Yewson< no role > , Robert Goswell< no role > , William Jeeves< no role > , Mark shotton< no role > , Thomas Proby< no role > , Thomas
Mc. Aness< no role > , Joseph Shelton< no role > , Samuel Featherston< no role > , Constantine Teulins< no role > , John grant< no role > , Edward Ross< no role > , Christopher
Armstrong< no role > , Richard Gibbin< no role > and Thomas Jones< 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 Richard Underwood< no role > came to his Death, doupon their Oathsay, That
the said Richard Underwood< no role > on the Eighteenth day of September 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 Asthma;
and that on the said Eighteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Richard Underwood< no role >
departed this Life by the Visitation of God, ina natural Way to wit, of the Disease
and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any hurt or Injury received from any Person
or Persons whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors; No Marks of Violence
appearing on the Body of the said Richard Underwood< no role > In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Hutson< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Felows, in their presence
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day, Year and Place
first abovewirtten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
T: Hutson [..]