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

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign
Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Margaretin the City of Westminster , within
the Liberty of the Dean Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of October 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 Thomas New< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Avery Vokins< no role >
William Thomas< no role > William Bell< no role > , William Ward< no role > , Charles Thomas< no role > , Joab Tripp< no role > , John Grainger< no role > , John
Price< no role > , William Fores< no role > , William Hunt< no role > , Thomas Hitchin< no role > , James Ashlett< no role > , John Saxey< no role > , George
Wheelwright< no role > , Nathaniel Cooper< no role > John Joyes< no role > Joseph Camm< no role > , Charles Evitt< no role > , John Burgess< no role > , Ernest Leslie< no role > , Ignatius
Jordan< no role > , Marshall Fleet< no role > and Thomas Jones< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
chosen, 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 Thomas New< no role > came to his
Death, do upon their Oath say, That Richard Cinderbury< no role > late of the Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex Cordwainer , not having the fear of God before his
Eyes, but being moved and reduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the fourteenth day of October in the
year aforesaid, with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
in and upon the said Thomas New< no role > , in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being
feloniously wilfully and of his Malice forethought, did make an Assault; And that the said Richard Cinderbury
with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel, of no Value, which he the said Richard Cinderbury then and
there had and held in his right Hand, him the said Thomas New< no role > in and upon the left side of the Breast
of him the said Thomas New< no role > , did then and there strike stab, and penetrate; And that the said Richard
Cinderbury by the striking and stabbing aforesaid, did then and there give unto him the said Thomas
New< no role > in and upon the left side of his Breast aforesaid, with that Knife aforesaid, one Mortal Wound
of the length of one Inch and of the depth of three Inches, of which said Mortal Wound he the said
Thomas New< no role > from the said fourteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid until the sixteenth
day of the same Month of October in the same Year, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, On which said sixteenth day of October in the Year
aforesaid the said Thomas New< no role > at a certain Hospital called the Westminster Hospital in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, of the said Mortal Wound did Dye.
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Richard Cinderbury him the
said Thomas New< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully and of his Malice
forethought did Hill and Murder, against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
And that the said Richard Cinderbury at the time of Committing the Felony and Murder aforesaid, or
at any time since, had not any Goods or Chattles Lands or Tenements within the Liberty aforesaid
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Avery Vokins< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself 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 > Coroner . [mark] Coroner.
Avery Vokins [mark] Foreman