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 First day of June
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
Henry
Bellamy< no role >
,
Robert Evans< no role >
,
Francis Stacey< no role >
,
Edward Berry< no role >
,
Samuel Ealand< no role >
,
Richard
Wright< no role >
,
Thomas Andrews< no role >
,
Joseph Rowland< no role >
,
Thomas Smith< no role >
,
Francis Day< no role >
,
William Smith< no role >
,
William Berrisford< no role >
and
Robert Bagnell< 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
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown (suspected)
to have been Murdered,) on the Twenty ninth day of May in the Year
aforesaid, died suddenly in a certain Court called Broad Court in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That
the said Man unknown departed this life by the Visitation of God
in a natural Way, and by no violent Means or Manner whatsoever,
to the knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said
Henry Bellamy< 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
Henry Bellamey Foreman< no role >