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. 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 Eighth
Day of February in the Fifth 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 Jane Austin< no role > (suspected to have been Murdered) then and there lying Dead, upon the
Oath of Thomas Southgate< no role > , William Stephens< no role > , Samuel Conno< no role > , James Brown< no role > , George Penner< no role > , Thomas Stanley< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , John
Butler< no role > , John Brown< no role > , Simon Bayley< no role > , Thomas Green< no role > , Richard Curtis< no role > , Robert Oliver< no role > , Henry Bowley< no role >
Lewis Edwards< no role > and John Brown< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chose
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 Jane Austin< no role > came to her Death, do upon their Oath
say, That the said Jane Austin< no role > on the Twenty seventh day of February 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
Twenty seventh day of February in the year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, she the said Jane Austin< no role > departed this Life, by the Visitation
of God, in a natural way, to wit, of the Distemper and Disease aforesaid, and not by any
hurt or Injury received from any Person or Persons whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the
said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Southgate< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellow, in
their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and
Place first above written

Tho Prichard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Thos. Southgates [mark] Foreman