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 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 Twenty sixth day of January in the Thirteenth 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
Foster< no role > , William Keelman< no role > , Lawrence Sibart< no role > , John Magill< no role > , Andrew Taylor< no role > , Lewis
Cole< no role > , Samuel Musselwhite< no role > , Joseph Squires< no role > , John Robertson< no role > , John Hamond< no role > , Robert Salomon< no role >
Thomas Straite< no role > , Richard Sells< no role > and John Suter< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire 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 the said Man Unknown on the
Twenty third day of January in the Year aforesaid, in the Night times,
being very much Intoxicated with Liquor, and lying in the Publick
Street at Whitehall , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Man unknown then
and there departed this Life through the Inclemency of the Weather,
and by no violent Ways or Means whatsoever to the Knowledge
of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Foster< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his 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

William Foster< no role >