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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the Twenty second day of February
in the Fourteenth Year
of the Regin 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
Bright ( whose Christian name is unknown) then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Peter
Bennet< no role >
, Charles Wright< no role >
, George Strangeways< no role >
, William Collier< no role >
, William Griffiths< no role >
,
John Davis< no role >
, William Johnson< no role >
, Samuel Middleton< no role >
. William Figg< no role >
. John Wall< no role >
George Green< 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 Bright came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Bright (whose Christian name
is unknown, and Suspected to have been Murdered.) was found dead in a certain
Place called Hungerford Market
in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid on the Twentieth day of February in the Year aforesaid That the said Bright died suddenly
by the Visitation of God in a natural way, and not by any Hurt
or Injury from any Person Whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the
said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Peter Bennett< 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
Per Bennett< no role >
[mark] Foreman