City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at The Parish of Saint 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 First day of February in the Ninth 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
a Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Walter
Watkins< no role > , Stephen Gagnon< no role > , John Shroder< no role > , Richard Kilsby< no role > , Martin Funk< no role > ,
Christopher Lewis< no role > , Henry Haverbeck< no role > , Alexander Hay< no role > , Edward Holmes< no role > , John Sutter< no role > ,
John Robe< no role > and John Morris< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man Unknown came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown on the Thirty
first day of January, between the hours of One and two in the Morning,
in the year aforesaid, in a certain Street called Long Acre situate and
being in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
departed this Life through the Inclemency of the Weather, and by no
violent ways or Means whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Walter
Watkins< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the
rest of his 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

Walter Watkins< no role > [mark] Foreman