London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to
say at the parish of Saint Magnus the Martyr in the Ward of Bridge in London aforesaid on the
seventh day of February in the thirty fourth year of the regin of our Sovereign Lord George the third
by the Grace 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 William Peters< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Samuel
HowlettJohnBurton< no role > [..] William Ross Daniel Wellis< no role > William Bless< no role > James Jackson< no role > John Burgon< no role >
Edward Strickland< no role > Joseph Martin< no role > Stephen Smith< no role > James Reeve Henry Smith< no role > Christian Detmer< no role >
John Donald< no role > James Disborough and John Foulds good and lawful men of th City of London who being
now here duly chosen swom and charged to inquire for our said the king when how and in what
manner the said William Peters< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said William
Peters on the first day of February in the year aforesaid being in and on board a certain Vessel on the
River of Thomas It so happened that the said William Peters< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from and out of the said vessel into the said River Thomas and in and with the waters
of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and
drowning he the said William Peters< no role > did then and there die and so the Jurors foresaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William Peters< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness where of
as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Howlet< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on
behalf of himself and the rest of his follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set
their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

Samuel Howlett [mark] Foreman