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 of St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the seventh day of March in the Thirty first
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
Benjamin Phillips< no role >
then and there lying dead
, upon
the Oath of
John Childs< no role >
,
William Moss< no role >
,
Robert Harris< no role >
,
George Staples< no role >
George Murray< no role >
,
Thomas Lowe< no role >
,
Thomas Beddell< no role >
,
William Webb< no role >
,
Joseph
Woodcock< no role >
,
Daniel Mc. Kinsey< no role >
,
John Chapman< no role >
,
George Gresham< no role >
,
John Burnham< no role >
Hector Mc. Leish< no role >
and
John Shilwell< 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
Benjamin Phillips< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say,
That on the Fifth day of March in the year
aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the
Liberty and County aforesaid the said
Benjamin Phillips< no role >
(suspected) to
have been musthered) departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a
natural Way, and not by any violence or Injury from any Person
whatever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said John Childs< 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
John Childs< no role >
Foreman