London.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Saint Mary Somerset in the Ward of Queenhith in London aforesaid on the twenty first 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
John Ropher< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of William Liddon< no role > Robert Benham John Millard< no role > Christopher
Percy William Plaskett< no role > Joseph Lee< no role > John Pursuid Joseph East< no role > John Fettiplace< no role > John Henly< no role > David
Roberts John Edwards< no role > Jonathan Downs Richard Eddells Willam Pearly< no role > and William Bayley< 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 John Roper< no role > came to his
death say upon their Oath that the said John Roper< no role > on the twentieth day of January in the year aforesaid
being standing near the door of a certain warehouse two stories high belonging to one John Welson< no role > situate
on Brook's Wharf in the parish and ward aforesaid It so happened that a certain bag of rags then
and there being in the said Warehouse accidentally casually and by misfortune moved and fell
against the said John Roper< no role > By means whereof the said John Roper< no role > was then and there forced
from and out of the said Warehouse down and upto and upon the said wharf by means whereof
the said John Ropher< no role > did then and there receive one mortal bruised in and upon the back part of
his head of which said mortal bruise the said John Roper< no role > did then and there instantly die
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Roper< no role > in manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Liddon< no role > the foreman
of the said Jurrors 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.

Willm Liddon [mark] Foreman