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 third
day of January in the Sixthyear 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 Thomas Bull< no role > then and there lying
Dead, upon the Oath of Henry Allibone< no role > , John Gee< no role > , John Read< no role > , Ralph Mills< no role > , John
Wilkes< no role > , Jonathan Hutchings< no role > , James Whalley< no role > , John Marshall< no role > , Robert Potter< no role > , William Jones< no role > ,
Edward Shuker< no role > , Peter Taylor< no role > and John Price< 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 Thomas Bull< no role >
came to his Death do upon their Oath say That two Men, to the Jurors aforesaid as yet
Unknown not having the fear of God before their Eyes but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil,
on the Twenty seventh day of December in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Sixty
five, with Force and Arms, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and
upon the said Thomas Bull< no role > in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being, feloniously
wilfully and of their Malice fore thought did make an Assault And that the said two Men, to the Jurors
aforesaid as yet unknown [..] two Men, as yet unknown, then
died there severally had and held in their right Hands, him the said Thomas Bull< no role > , in and upon the Head of
him the said Thomas Bull< no role > , did then and there Feloniously strike and beat, thereby then and there giving
unto him the said Thomas Bull< no role > , with the Oaken Sticks aforesaid, in and upon the left side of the Head of him
the said Thomas Bull< no role > , one mortal Wound and also one mortal Fracture, of which said mortal Wound and
mortal Fracture, he the said Thomas Bull< no role > from the said Twenty seventh day of December in the Year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and Sixty five, to the Second day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and Sixty six, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live, on which said Second day of January in the Year aforesaid, he the said Thomas Bull< no role > , at
the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, of the mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid, did dye, And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said two Men, to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown,
him the said Thomas Bull< no role > , in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, feloniously wilfully and of their Malice
forethought, did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. And that
the said two Men, to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown, after they had done and committed the Felony and
Murder aforesaid, in Manner aforesaid, withdrew and fled for the same; And that at the time of the doing and
Committing thereof, or at any time since, they had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements, to the Knowledge
or Notice of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Henry Allibone< 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 their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Henry Allibone< no role > Foreman