City & Liberty of
Westminster
in
the County of
Middlesex
}
to wit.
In Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Dwelling
House of
Robert Feulosen< no role >
, Pauton Street
Haymarket
Parish St. Martin in the Fields
Sign of the Union Arms
within the
Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
in the County of Middlesex
the
Seventeenth day of May in the thirty 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
Anthony
Gell< no role >
Upr. Coroner
of our said Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body of
Thomas Eaton< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder
written and Seals affixed good and lawful Men of the said City and Liberty, duly chosen, and 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
Thomas Eaton< no role >
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, that some Person or Persons to these Jurors unknown
not having the Fear of God before their Eyes, but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the fifteenth day
of May, in the Year aforesaid, with force and Arms, in or near Oxenden Street
in the Parish aforesaid, in and upon
the said
Thomas Eaton< no role >
, in the Peace of God, and of our said Lord the King, then and there being, feloniously
wilfully, and of their Malice aforethought did make an Assault. And that the said Person or Persons to these
Jurors unknown then and there feloniously wilfully, and of his or their Malice aforethought did beat to the Ground him
the said
Thomas Eaton< no role >
and that the said
Thomas Eaton< no role >
did then and there receive one Mortal Wound or the back of the Head of him the said
Thomas Eaton< no role >
Of
which said Mortal Wound he the said
Thomas Eaton< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Person or Persons unknown him
the said
Thomas Eaton< no role >
in manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully, and of his or
their Malice aforethought, did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown
and Dignity. And that the said Person or Persons unknown, after he or they had committed the Felony and
Murder aforesaid, in manner and by the Means aforesaid, withdrew, and fled for the same
And that the time of the committing thereof, or at any time since he or they the said Person or Persons
unknown, had not any Goods or Chattels, Lands or Tenements, within the said County or elsewhere
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner
as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the Day
Year and Place first above written.
Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner
}
Benjn. Capper< no role >
Geo Bourne< no role >
Andrew Smith< no role >
John Kems< no role >
The Mark [mark] of Thos Webb< no role >
.
John Jones< no role >
Louis Horts [..]
Valle
Wm Arquhart< no role >
Jno Johns< no role >
John Moddocks< no role >
Edwd Coleman< no role >
W Barnett
Machell Stace< no role >