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 Sixteenth day of August 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 Catherine Cotis< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Robert Hardie< no role > , Thomas Isles< no role > , Richard Seaton< no role >
John May< no role > , James Thompson< no role > , Charles Reading< no role > , Robert Mitchell< no role > William
Clark< no role > , Richard Heath< no role > , William Lasty< no role > , John Spence< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > John
Archer< no role > , David Phillips< no role > and Christr. Saunders< 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 Catherine Cotis< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Catherine Cotis (suspected
to have been murthered) on the Fifteenth day of August in
the Year aforesaid at the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid departed this Life by the Visitation of God
in a natural Way and not by any Violence and Injury done
or Committed by Thomas Inaney< no role > or any other Person to
the Knowledge of the said Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Robert Hardie< 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 Hardie< no role > Foreman