City and Liberty of Westmr.
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
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
in the County of Middlesex
the Fifteenth
day of Marchin the fourth 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
Patrick Smith< no role >
a Chairman then and there lying Dead,
upon the Oath of
John Smith< no role >
,
John Finch< no role >
,
Francis Taylor< no role >
,
Frederick Verden< no role >
,
Thomas Hamor< no role >
,
John Green< no role >
,
Samuel Simmons< no role >
,
George Warren< no role >
,
John Vetch< no role >
,
John Jackson< no role >
Hugh
Whitaker< no role >
,
Alexander Bellendine< no role >
,
Andrew Thomas< no role >
,
George Watson< no role >
,
Thomas Shields< no role >
,
Samuel
Norgrove< no role >
,
James Jesop< no role >
,
John Thomas< no role >
and
Samuel Joynes< 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
Patrick Smith< no role >
came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say, That
Nicholas Maccabe< no role >
late of the Parish of St. George
Bloomsbury
, in the County of
Middlesex
Chairman on the twelfth day of March in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the
said Parish of St. George
Bloomsbury
, in the County aforesaid in and upon the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
in
the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being Feloniously did make an Assault,
And that the said
Nicholas Maccabe< no role >
with both his hands him the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
did then and
there divers times feloniously beat and strike, And that the said
Nicholas Maccabe< no role >
him the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
did then and there violently and feloniously cast and throw to the Ground, whereby the
Neck of the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
was then and there Dislocated, of which said Dislocation he the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of Westminster
in the
County of Middlesex
from the said twelfth day of March in the Year aforesaid
, until the thirteenth
day of the same Month of March in the same Year did languish and languishing did live, on which
said thirteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
at the said Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, of the Dislocation aforesaid, did
Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Nicholas
Maccabe< no role >
him the said
Patrick Smith< no role >
in Manner and form aforesaid, feloniously did Kill and
Slay, against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity: And that the said
Nicholas Maccabe< no role >
at the time of committing the Felony and Manslaughter aforesaid or at
any time since had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
John Smith< 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 first
above written
Tho. Prickard< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
.
John Smith< no role >
[mark] Foreman