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 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 third day of October in the twenty eighth
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
John Boon< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
William Clifton< no role >
,
James Barcley< no role >
,
George Adam Doctorman< no role >
,
John Aldridge< no role >
,
Arrow Smith< no role >
,
William Pearce< no role >
,
John Smart< no role >
,
John
Price< no role >
,
Thomas Cox< no role >
,
Christopher Wildman< no role >
,
Christoper Fisher< no role >
,
John
Robinson< no role >
,
Thomas Skelton< no role >
,
George Godwin< no role >
,
George Maddock< no role >
,
William
Bailey< no role >
, and
Thomas Foster< 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
John Boon< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said
John Boon< no role >
(suspected to
have been murdered) on the second day of September in the Year
aforesaid died suddenly in a certain Street called Castle Street
in the said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty and County aforesaid by the Visitation of God in a
natural way and that he came not to his Death by any violent
means or manner whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness where of aswell the
said Coroner as the said William Clifton< 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 >
Coroner
Wm Clifton< no role >
Foreman