Westminster
City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex
}
to Wit.
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields
, in the County of Middlesex
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter at Westminster
, the twenty fifth day of March
in the Second 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 >
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body
of
Gilbert Cocks< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Philip Cole< no role >
John Harris< no role >
Richard Sheffeld< no role >
,
Thomas Bear< no role >
George Dale< no role >
,
George Puller< no role >
Edward Bennet< no role >
,
William Fowler< no role >
,
John Felix< no role >
,
Salisbury Purrier< no role >
Humphrey Nightingale< no role >
James Stiles< no role >
Thomas Feilds< no role >
,
Thomas
Howard< no role >
,
Wm. Robinson< no role >
,
Adam Donkerly< no role >
,
John Bell< no role >
,
Charles Churchman< no role >
,
John Shakespear< no role >
&
Wm. Portall< no role >
, good and lawful Men of the said
Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the
King, how and by what means the said Gilbert Cockscame to his Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said Gilbert Cocks on the Twenty third day of March in the Year aforesaid, being a Prisoner in the
Custody of
Robert Goodland< no role >
one of the Officers of the Marshall's Court at the dwelling House of the said
Robert
Goodland< no role >
in James Street in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty aforesaid, on a certain
Process then lately before Issued out of the Marshall's Court at the Suit of
Jonathan Cope< no role >
for the Sum of Twenty six
Pounds, on the Day and Year aforesaid there dyed by the Visitation of God a Natural Death. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Philip Cole< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner
Philip Cole Foren< no role >