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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty fifth day of January in the twenty eighth
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 William Warton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Barlow< no role > , Frederick Wendemude< no role > , John
Pearson< no role > , John Pullen< no role > , Jesse Upjohn< no role > , Samuel Davis< no role > , Peter
Aston< no role > , James Campbell< no role > , William Curven< no role > , William Crow< no role > , John
Blackburn< no role > , Edmund Revenhill< no role > , William Hulme< no role > , William
Rose< no role > and William Chadwell< 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 William Warton< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , that on the said twenty fifth day of
January in the year aforesaid, the said William Warton< no role >
was found Drowned and Floating in and upon the
River Thames in the said Parish of Saint John the
Evangelist within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
that no Marks of Violence appeared on the Body, but
how or by what Means, the said William Warton< no role > became
Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear
to the Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said Thomas Barlow< 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
Thos Barlow [mark] Foreman