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 St. Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapeter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of May in the Eleventh 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
Elizabeth Osborn< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Dobson< no role > , John Finney< no role > John Reed< no role > , George Streeting< no role > , William Williams< no role >
Benjamin Goodall< no role > , William Welch< no role > , John Hobbs< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , Robert Suchson< no role >
William Garford< no role > , Hugh Glenny< no role > , Timothy Vauhan< no role > , John Gray< no role > , James Henn< no role > , Edward Turshaw< no role >
George Lockett< no role > , Richard Snow< no role > , and Robert Cretel< 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 Elizabeth Osborn< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Osborn< no role > on the
Fifteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid, being Intoxicated and in
Liquor, did go into Bed in the Dwelling House of John Roberts< no role > a Distiller
situate in Oxford Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and having then and there a Silk Handkerchief tied
about the Neck of her the said Elizabeth Osborn< no role > , and lying upon her Back
in the said Bed, It so happened that the said Elizabeth Osborn< no role > accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune was then and there Suffocated and Choaked,
of which said Suffocation and Choaking she the said Elizabeth Osborn< no role >
them and there died. And in the Jurors aforesaid [..]
aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Osborn< no role > in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came
to her Death, and not otherwise. In Witness where of as well the
said Coroner as the said Thomas Dobson< no role > Forman of the said Jurors,
in 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 > [mark] Coroner

Thos. Dobson [mark] Foreman< no role >