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 Twenty third
Day of Mayin 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, on View of the Body of Benjamin Ramsey< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Brunton< no role > , Thomas Turner< no role > , Adam Digby< no role > , George Wheeler< no role > , John Baker< no role > , Mark Potter< no role > ,
Robert Constable< no role > , Thomas Owen< no role > , Thomas Uphill< no role > , John Watts< no role > , Thomas Thornthwaite< no role > ,
and Alexander Black< 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 Benjamin Ramsey Came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, Thos
the said Benjamin Ramsey, on the Twenty first day of May in the Year aforesaid,
was found Drowned and Suffocated in a certain open Ditch containing a large
Quantity of Mud and Water, situate and being on Mill Bank near the Neat House, in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, that the said Benjamin
Ramsey had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body [..] hew or by what mean
he became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Richard Brunton< 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 > Coroner .

Richd. BrantonForeman