London

In Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Mary
of Hall in the ward of Billingsgate in London aforesaid on the ninth day of August in the thirty first
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the faith 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 Show as Church now here lying dead by the Oath of Barnet Steers Thomas Tursh Richard
Ricke Samuel Burton< no role > Joseph Boome John Rice< no role > Charles Perry< no role > Samuel Briscoe< no role > John Jacobs< no role >
John Coleman< no role > Stephen Wickham< no role > Richard Duffer< no role > Thomas Goodwin< no role > and Benjamin Buctcher good
and lawful men of that parish 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 Church< no role >
same to his death say upon their Oath that the said Thomas Church< no role > out the seventh day of August
the Year aforesaid being a sleep on board a certain Boat on the River Thames and one
thomas lubbatt being carefully rowing the said Boat through one of the archers of a certain
Bridge called London Bridge It so happened that the said Boat accidentally casually
and by misfortune struck with great force and violence against a certain piece of Timber
that was then and there nailed a cross one of the Locks belonging to the Water works of
the said Bridge by means whereof the said Boat and the said Thomas Church< no role > so being a sleep
is the said the Boat as aforesaid did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune
sick under the waters of the said River and the said Thomas Church< no role > in and with the said
waters of the said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which suffocation and
Drowning he the said Thomas Church< no role > did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Church< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid accidentally and by misfortune was suffocated and Drowned
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Barnet steers the
Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fell our in
their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day Year and
Place first above written

B Steers [mark] Foreman