London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of January in the thirty fifth
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 Shelton< no role >
Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark
on view of the body of Thomas Rees< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Barnett< no role >
James Rogers< no role > Robert Mortimore< no role > John Dix< no role > William Drew< no role > John Badham< no role > Joseph
Badhouse< no role > William Greenfield< no role > Samuel Reader< no role > Richard Greenfield< no role > James Venables< no role > and
William Butterfield< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now
here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and
in what manner the said Thomas Rees< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the
said Thomas Rees< no role > on the twenty seventh day of January in the year aforesaid being a
prisoner in the prison of our Lord the King of the Fleet situate in the parish and ward aforesaid
and being then and there sick and languishing It so happened that afterwards on the same day
and year last mentioned the said Thomas Rees< no role > within the prison aforesaid by the visitation
of God died a natural death and by no violent means or manner whatsoever In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Barnett< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on 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 first abovementioned.

Wm Barnett< no role > [mark] Foreman