Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the tenth 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 in view of the body
of Thomas Cousins< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of James Brandram, Thomas
Hains, John Huddibull< no role > , Robert Smith< no role > , Thomas Pickton< no role > the younger , William Pummell< no role > ,
William Bell< no role > , John Illman< no role > , Joseph Chipperfield< no role > , Thomas Bonny< no role > , William Holbrook< no role > ,
and Richard Lane< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark in the County
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 Thomas Cousins< no role > came to
his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Cousins< no role > on the third day of
August in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid within the Borough and County
aforesaid being bathing in the River of Thames It so happened that the said
Thomas Cousins< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune sunk beneath the
waters of 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 Thomas Cousins< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
Upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Cousins< 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 James Brandram 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.

James Brandram [mark] Foremen