Middlesex
to wit.}

An Inquisition indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the
Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex the thirteenth day
of December in the 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > Esquire One of the Coroners of our said Lord
the King for the said County on View of the Body of John Etheridge< no role > then and there
lying dead upon the Oath of John Aris< no role > Richard Fox< no role > Nathaniel Jones< no role > Thomas Gibbons< no role >
Thomas Gibbons< no role > the Younger , Philip Baker< no role > William Martin< no role > Ralph Smith< no role > Henry Hamill< no role >
Tobias Wildbore< no role > Leonard Goodridge< no role > John Royce< no role > and John Ludlow< no role > good and lawful
Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law is required and who being then and
there duly sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how
and by what means the said John Etheridge< no role > came to his death Do upon their Oath
day That
Thomas Plymer< no role > late of the Parish and County aforesaid Laborer on the
eleventh day of December in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish
and in the County aforesaid in and upon the said John Etheridge< no role > in the Peace of God
end of our said sovereign Lord the King then and there being feloniously did make
an Assault And That the said Thomas Plymer with one of his Hands him the said
John Etheridge< no role > then and there feloniously did hit strike and beat, thereby then and
there giving unto him the said John Etheridge< no role > one mortal Bruise or contusion on that
right side of the head of him the said John Etheridge< no role > , of which said mortal Bruise or
confusion he the said John Etheridge< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas Plymer him the said John Etheridge< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously did kill and stay against the Peace of
our said Lord the King his Crown and diginity And That the said Thomas Plymer at the
Time of the doing and committing of the Felony and Man daught or aforesaid or at any
time since had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said County or elsewhere
to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said John Aris< no role > the Foremen of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his said Fellows in their pressure have to this inquisition set their Hands
And Seals the day year and Place first above mentioned.

Umfreville
Coronr.