London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the fifth day of March in the thirty fifth 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on
view of the body of John Gunston< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Barnett< no role >
Bartholomew Fitzgerald< no role > James Rogers< no role > John Badham< no role > John Bonner< no role > William Drew< no role >
John Dix< no role > William Greenfield< no role > Robert Mortimore< no role > John Jones< no role > John Crabb< no role > and Dowell
Veare good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly
chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what
manner the said John Gunston< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said
John Gunston< no role > on the fourth day of March in the year aforesaid being a prisoner in
the prison of our Lord the King of the Fleet situate in the parish and Ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid and being then and there sick and languishing It is happened
that the said John Gunston< no role > within the prison aforesaid by the visitation of God died a
natural death and by no violent means or manner whatsoever. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said William Barnett< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors
on 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.

Wm Barnett [mark] Foreman< no role >