London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is to say)
at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Fower in London aforesaid on the thirtieth
day of July in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King
of Great Britain 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
Bissett now here lying dead by the oath of William How< no role > , John Crane< no role > , Joseph Fennell< no role > ,
Samuel Wright< no role > , Henry Hadden< no role > , Stephen Newman< no role > , Joseph Davis< no role > , John Williams< no role > , John
Smith, John Beckett< no role > , Daniel Jewson< no role > , and William Harris< 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 Bissett< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Bissett< no role > on
the twenty seventh day of July in the year aforesaid being in and on board of
a certain vessel lying on the River of Thames there situate It so happened
that the said John Bissett accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and
out of the said vessel into the said River 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 Bissett< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Bissett< 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 How< 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 above written.

Willm How< no role > [mark]