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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at Knightsbridge in the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirty first day of March in the twenty fourth
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 City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of William Jenkins< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
James Lake< no role > , John Bacon< no role > , Thomas Hilder< no role > , Thomas
Andrews< no role > , Roger Murley< no role > , William Mc. Cleish< no role > , Robert
Anderson< no role > , Richard Readle< no role > , George Puffer< no role > , Henry List< no role > ,
Francis Perceval< no role > and James Pagan< 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 Means the Said William Tenkins came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said William Jenkins< no role >
a Vagabond being Ordered to be Passed from the County of
Gloucester to the Parish of St. Mary le bone in the said County
of Middlesex , where the said William Jenkins< no role > was a Parishioner,
on the Thirtieth day of March in the Year aforesaid the
said William Jenkins< no role > in a certain Cart in which he was
carried, in the Kings High Way at Knightsbridge in the
said Parish of Saint Margaret with in the Liberty and
County aforesaid departed this Life by the Visitation of God
in a Natural Way, and not by any injury from any
Person whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said James Lake< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors,
on the behalf of himself and rest of his Fellows, in
their presence have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

James LakeForeman