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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifth day of April in the Thirteenth 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
Joseph Pauley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
West< no role > , John Allison< no role > , George Smith< no role > , Walter Williams< no role > , William Marriet< no role >
Francis Lyon< no role > , Robert Jefferson< no role > , Charles Green< no role > , John Bickerton< no role > , John Shaw< no role >
Thomas Salter< no role > , John Tubb< no role > , William Ash< no role > , Thomas Nelson< no role > , Thomas Hinton< no role > ,
Samuel Jones< no role > and John Daniel Soloman< 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 Joseph Pauley came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Joseph Pauley (suspected
to have been lately Murdred) on the Second day of April in the
Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, departed this Life by the Visitation of God, in a natural
Way, to Wit, of a Putred Fever, and not by any Hurt or Injury
from Mortimer, or any other Person or Persons to the
Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said Richard West< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Richd. West< no role >