City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of July in the Eleventh 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 Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Joseph Fearnside< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Daniel
Bower< no role > , William Baker< no role > , Robert Harries< no role > , John Colles< no role > , Samuel Burrow< no role > , John
Sarbitt< no role > , Henry Etley< no role > , John smith< no role > , John Lucas< no role > , John Trewen< no role > , John Williams< no role > , John
Elworth< no role > , James Lowe< no role > , Robert Povch< no role > , William Baxter< no role > , James Matthews< no role > ,
and William Simmons< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Joseph Fearnside came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Fearnside on the
Fifteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, at the Bottom of Salisbury Street,
going into the River Thames , there to bath himself, It so happened
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, he the said Joseph Fearnside
was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and Drowned;
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Joseph Fearnside then
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Joseph Fearnside in Manner and by thea
Means aforesaid accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to
his Death and not otherwise. In Witness where was well the said
Coroner, as the said Daniel Bower< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have
to his Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Daniel Bower< no role > Foreman