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. Margaret in the City of Westminster with in the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the First day of February 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 Prichard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the
King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Henry Howard< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of William Green< no role > , William Clay< no role > , Joseph Kettlewell< no role > , James
Pearce< no role > , William Lowdey< no role > , Thomas Card< no role > , George King< no role > , James Osborn< no role > , Abraham Terry< no role > ,
John Wilson< no role > , Thomas Collier< no role > and John Clark< 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 Henry Howard< no role > came to his Death
do upon their Oath say, that four Men to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown, on the Eighth
day of January in the Year aforesaid, with Force and Arms at the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said Henry Howard< no role > , in the Peace of God
and of our said Lord the King then and there being, feloniously did make an Assault, and that
the said four Men to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, with their hands him the said Henry Howard< no role > , did
then and there feloniously strike and beat, and violently and feloniously cast and throw to the Ground
and that the said four Men unknown him the said Henry Howard< no role > then and there lying upon the
Ground as aforesaid, with the feet of them the said Men unknown in and upon the Privy parts
of him the said Henry Howard< no role > , then and there feloniously did strike and kick, thereby then and there
giving unto him the said Henry Howard< no role > , one mortal Bruise in and upon the said Privy parts of
him the said Henry Howard< no role > , of which said mortal Bruise he the said Henry Howard< no role > , at the said Parish of
St. Paul Covent Garden , and also at the Parish of St. Mary le Strand , and at a certain Hospital situate in
the said Parish of St. Margaret, commonly called the Westminster , Hospital, in the City Liberty and County
aforesaid, from the said Eighth day of January in the Year aforesaid, until the Thirty first day of
the same month in the same Year, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Thirty first
day of January in the same Year, in the Hospital aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Margaret in the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Henry Howard< no role > , of the mortal Bruise aforesaid did die
and to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said four Men to the Jurors
aforesaid as yet unknown, him the said Henry Howard< no role > , in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
feloniously did hill and slay, against the Peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and Dignity
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said William Green< 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 Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Wm. Green Foreman