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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty Sixth day of August in the Twenty sixth
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 Major Richard Scott< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Ward< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , William Irish< no role > , John Tooth< no role > , Joseph White< no role >
Richard Devenport< no role > , Thomas James< no role > , John Stevens< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role >
Antony Torre< no role > , John Stainbridge< no role > , Claud Pontel< no role > , Robert Hill< no role > , John Lomack< no role > , Francis
Monys< no role > , John Jolliffe< no role > , John Norton< no role > , James Cambel< no role > , Robert Cottrell< no role > , John Walden< no role >
John Steers< no role > , John Cordry< no role > , and Melchin Henry Wagner< 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 Major Richard Scott< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Major Richard Scott< no role > on the
Twenty fifth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in
the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit in an Apartment in the Dwelling
House of Mr. James Brewer< no role > the Master of the Carlton Hotel in Pall Male
did by the Visitation of God then and there Dye a Natural Death. In
Witness whereof as well the said Corner as the Foreman of the Jurors
aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors Lane to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place
abovementioned

James Ward< no role >
Foreman

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner