City and Liberty
of Westminster
,
in the County of
Middlesex
.}
to wit.
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at Tothill Fields
Bridewell
in the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the Twenty sixth day of July 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
William Matcalf< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
William Jordan< no role >
,
Thomas Evans< no role >
,
William Mussery< no role >
John Dunford< no role >
,
John Neal< no role >
,
John Read< no role >
,
Welter Hodgkinson< no role >
Thomas Dewick< no role >
,
William Young< no role >
,
Thomas Cox< no role >
,
Thomas Smith< no role >
and
John Weems< 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
William Metcalf< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said
William Metcalf< no role >
being
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields
Bridewell
in the Parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid on the
said twenty sixth day of July in the year aforesaid, at Tothill
Fields
Bridewell
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
departed this Life by the Visitation of God in a Natural Way
to Wit, of a fever and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner
, as the said William Jordan< 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 >
[mark]
Coroner
Wm Jordon< no role >
[mark] Foreman