City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Goal or Prison called the Gate house situate in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster ,
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex the Ninth day of February in the 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
Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman , Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of
the Body of Silas Barcotolf< no role > a Prisoner, then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Gardner< no role > Thomas
Hickson< no role > , James Robins< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Combs Cox< no role > , John Burgess< no role > , Robert Mills< no role > ., James Wild< no role > William
Terry< no role > , George Davis< no role > William Eakins< no role > , Samuel Tyler< no role > , Thomas Mabley< no role > , Samuel Preston< no role > and William Overhead< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and charge
to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said Silas Barcotolf came to his
Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Silas Barcotolf on the Eighth day of February in the
year aforesaid being a Prisoner in the Goal or Prison aforesaid situate in the Parish aforesaid
within the City Liberty and County aforesaid and being then and there sick and Languishing
It so happened that afterwards the same Day and Year last mentioned, the said Silas Barcotolf
within the Goal or Prison aforesaid by the Visitation of God and by no Violent Means or Manner
whatsoever died a natural Death. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
John Gardner< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on 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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Gardner< no role > [mark] Foreman