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

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
King at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Twelfth
day of Mayin 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 a Man Unknown then and there lying
Dead upon the Oath of William Lewis< no role > , Thomas Gooch< no role > , John Hancorn< no role > , Richard Scrase< no role >
William Miles< no role > , John Owen< no role > , Robert Corbett< no role > , Thomas Carter< no role > , John Coats< no role > , William Vervill< no role > ,
John Room< no role > and Morris Rice< 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 Man Unknown came to his Death do upon
their Oath say, That on the Eleventh day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the said
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit,
in a certain Publick Road or King's Highway leading from Knightsbridge towards
Hyde Park Corner , the said Man Unknown, by a Fit of an Apoplexy, or other sudden
Visitation of God, died a Natural Death; And not by any hurt or Injury received
from any Person or Persons whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said William Lewis< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Wm Lewis< no role > Foreman