London
Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to
say at precinct of Bridewell Hospital in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
on the twenty first day of March in the thirty fifth 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 Bateson< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of Roger Owen< no role > John Harris< no role > George Sanderson< no role > Thomas Couling< no role > Thomas Reynolds< no role >
Robert Smart< no role > William Russell< no role > Isaac Estridge< no role > Robert Hatton< no role > Henry Woodroffe< no role > William
Randle and Richard Murrell< 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 Bateson< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the
said John Bateson< no role > then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the
River of 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 John Bateson< no role > did then and there
die 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 abovewritten

Roger Owen [mark] Foreman