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 Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of June in the twenty 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
Prickard< no role > , Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of John Moorie then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Collier< no role > , Thomas Gosharon< no role > Charles
Thirkell< no role > John Glanvield< no role > . George Richards< no role > , Anthony
Westrey< no role > , William Sully< no role > , Peter Conoley< no role > . Robert Menzies< no role > ,
William Arrowsmith< no role > Robert Ranfords< no role > , Samuel Tippen< no role >
John Chambers< no role > and Moses Morgan< 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 John Moorie came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Moorie on the
said seventeenth day of June in the Year aforesaid was found
drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames ; that the said
John Moorie had no Marks of Violence appearing on his body,
but how or by what Means he became drowned and Suffocated
no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Robert Collier< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors on the 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Robt Collier< no role > [mark] Foreman