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 Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the Sixth day of August in the twenty seventh
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 City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of
James Henderson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Thomas Weston< no role >
,
Thomas Sessians< no role >
,
John Withers< no role >
,
William
Joyce< no role >
,
John Clark< no role >
,
William Jones< no role >
,
Stephen Thomee< no role >
,
Thomas
Hitchcock< no role >
,
John Humphres< no role >
,
William Stapping< no role >
Joseph Gage< no role >
,
and
Henry Crown< 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
James Henderson< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Fourth day of August in
the Year aforesaid The said
James Henderson< no role >
(suspected to
have been murdered) died suddenly in the Peace in Covent
Garden
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
by the Visitation of God in a natural Way and not from any
violence or Injury.
[..] any person whatsoever to the Knowledge
of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Thomas Weston< 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 abovementioned:
Tho Prickard< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
Thomas [mark] Weston< no role >
Foreman