London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the parish of Saint Botolph with
Bishopogate in the Ward of Bishopogate without in London aforesaid
on the twenty fourth 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
Thomas Haslam< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of
James Lawson< no role >
James Frankland< no role >
Ivon Lenain< no role >
Richard Mould< no role >
Edward Clark< no role >
Charles
Jenn
John Davis< no role >
Joseph Parker< no role >
Peter Lucadon< no role >
William Barnfield< no role >
John Potter< no role >
Richard Wild< no role >
William Allin< no role >
Abel Stevenson< no role >
and Edward Bott good and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid
who being now here duly chosen sworn and Charged to inquiere for our said Lord the King when how
and in what manner the said
Thomas Haslam< no role >
came to his death say upon their Oath that the
said
Thomas Haslam< no role >
on the twenty first day of January in the year aforesaid being greatly intoxicated
by the execussive drinking diverse large quantities of a certain strong & spirituous liguor called Geneva It as happened that the said Thomas
Haslam on the same day and year aforesaid at the parish & ward aforesaid in London by such excessive drinking & intoxciated
was then and there choached and suffocated of which said choacking suffocation he the said Thomas Haslamed then
and there die And as the Jurrors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Thomas Haslam< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid came to his death and otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
James Lawson< no role >
the foreman of the said Jurros 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
Jas Lawson [mark] Forman