London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the precinct of Bridewell hospital in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on
the fifteenth day of January in the thirty fourth 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 a man unknown now here lying dead
by the Oath of Roger Owen< no role > Edward Owen< no role > John Harris< no role > Thomas Couling< no role > Thomas Reynolds< no role >
Robert Hatton< no role > George Gerrard< no role > Richard Humphreys< no role > Robert Jutat Ralph Young< no role > and
Thomas Rodbard< no role > and Richard Murred< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London 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 Man unknown came to his death say upon their
Oath that the said man unknown [..] on the tenth day of January in the year
aforesaid being in and on board a certain large on the river Thames It so happened that the said
Man unknown accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said lighter into
the said River Thames and in and with the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said man unknown did then and there
die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said man unknown
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated
and drowned. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Roger Owen< 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.

Roger Owen< no role > [mark] foreman