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 Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of May in the Tenth 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 Thomas
Willement< no role > , Thomas Bywater< no role > , John Burgess< no role > , John Hudson< no role > , James Bowen< no role > , James
Bean< no role > , John Keith< no role > , George Hathaway< no role > , James Doble< no role > , Edward James< no role > , John Edley< no role > ,
John Payne< no role > , Richard Riches< no role > and Henry Cox< 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
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown (suspected
to have been killed by a Stroke) died suddenly in the Taphouse of John
Austin< no role > Victualler situate and being in the Broad Way in the Parish
aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, That the
said Man Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his-
Body, but died by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not
by any Hurt or Injury received from any Person whatsoever,
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Willement< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the list 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

Thos. Willement< no role > [mark] Foreman