London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the seventeenth day of September in the thirty sixth 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
William Becket< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Neighbour< no role > John Hosier< no role >
John Colby< no role > William Eady< no role > James Bird< no role > James Henshaw< no role > John Pendrick< no role > George Winterton< no role > George
Stonard Peter White< no role > Thomas Frith< no role > Thomas Clark< no role > William Fraile< no role > William Puckridge< no role >
John Bush< no role > Thomas Massey< no role > John Hunt< no role > and John Todd< no role > 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 William Becket< no role > came
to his death say upon their oath that the said William Becket< no role > on the sixteenth day of
September in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid was sick
and diseased in his body of which said sickness and disease the said William Becket< no role > on the said
sixteenth day of September in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid did die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said William
Becker by the visitation of God died a natural death and by no violent means or men our
whatsoever. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Neighbour< 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.

Thos [mark] Neighbour< no role >