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 Saint Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter
Westminster
in the County of Middlesex
, the Twentieth day of November in the Sixth
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 in view of the Body of a Man Unknown, then and there
lying Dead, upon the Oath of
William Smeeton< no role >
,
Robert Redford< no role >
,
Daniel Ellis< no role >
,
William
Burr< no role >
,
Christopher Golden< no role >
,
Frederick Beck< no role >
,
James Michie< no role >
,
Warner Cappan< no role >
,
Robert
Duckerall< no role >
Thomas Lowe< no role >
,
Jonathan Fortune< no role >
John Shepherd< no role >
,
Thomas Tournack< no role >
,
James Sedgwick< no role >
,
Thomas Singer< no role >
,
John Hill< 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 Man UnknownCame to his Death do upon their Oath say, That
the said Man Unknown on the Eighteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid, at
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, in a certain Place
called the Flower Garden in Covent Garden
, was found Dead, That the said Man Unknown
had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by what Means
he came to his Death no Evidence thereof doth appear to the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
William Smeeton< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set the Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place first above written
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner
.
William Smeeton< no role >
Foreman