London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is
to say) at the precinct of Saint Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon with in
in London aforesaid on the Seventh day of August 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 Richard Woody< no role > now
few lying dead by the oath of Ezekiel Delight< no role > Thomas Rodbard< no role > James Hollings< no role >
James Russell< no role > James Freeman< no role > William Heawood Charles Moody< no role > James
Harrison Senior< no role > , William Waterhouse< no role > Andrew Imerie< no role > and William Pritchard< no role >
Henry Gray< no role > Robert Carrick< no role > and Samuel Nash 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
Richard Woody< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Richard
Woody on the fifth day of August 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 Richard Woody 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 Richard Woody< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the Said Richard Woody< no role > in Manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said Ezekiel Delight< 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.

Ezekiel Delight< no role > [mark] Foreman