City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint 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 Sixth day of September in the twenty third
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 Frederick Thomas< no role > Esquire then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Tombling< no role > , Thomas Downes< no role > , Paul Webster< no role > ,
Thomas Simmson< no role > , Thomas Shankster< no role > This name instance is in set 00. , Henry
McLaughlin< no role > , Joseph Storer< no role > , John Wallis< no role > , Benjamin
Couch< no role > , James Frost< no role > , George Elward< no role > and Thomas Smith< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Frederick Thomas< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the Honourable Cosmo Gordon< no role > late of the Parish
Liberty and County aforesaid not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and
seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid
with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
in and upon the said Frederick Thomas< no role > in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King
then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did make an
Assault, And that the said Cosmo Gordon a certain Pistol of the Value of ten shillings
charged and loaded with Gun powder and leaden Bullet which he the said Cosmo Gordon
then and there had and held in his Right Hand, to and against the Body of him the said Frederick Thomas< no role >
did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Cosmo Gordon feloniously
wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did then and there give unto him the said Frederick Thomas< no role >
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so as aforesaid shot off and discharged out of the Pistol aforesaid
by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal Wound on the Right side of the Belly into
and through the Body of him the said Frederick Thomas< no role > of which said Mortal Wound he the said
Frederick Thomas< no role > from the said fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid until the fifth day of
the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did
languish and lauguishing did live, on which said fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid he the
said Frederick Thomas< no role > at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid of the Mortal
Wound aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Cosmo Gordon him the said Frederick Thomas< no role > in the Manner and by the Means aforesaid
feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did Kill and Murder against the Peace
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. And that the said Cosmo Gordon at the time of the
committing the Felony and Murder aforesaid as at any time since, had no Goods or Chattels Lands
or Tenements within the said Liberty or else where to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Tombling< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Robert Tombling< no role > Foreman