Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at that Parish of Saint
John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the thirteenth day of February
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 Stephen Strevens< no role >
Benjamin Pool< no role > Henry Fox< no role > John Davis< no role > Richard Godwin< no role > William Fard James Jebb David
Balfour William Cook< no role > David Wilson< no role > Richard Redmayne< no role > Thomas Archer< no role > Matthew Winckle< no role >
and William Severidge< no role > good and lawful man of the Borough of Southwark who being no where
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 then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River Thames
and in and with the waters of the said RiverCitywas 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 came to his death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Stephen Strevens< 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 frist above written.

Stepn: Strivens< no role > [mark] Foreman