Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of
Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the fourth
day of September in the thirty second 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 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 Isaac
Lawson now here lying dead by the Oath of William Cook< no role > , John Limcoe, Richard
Innott, John Powell< no role > , George Oventon< no role > , Joseph Jones< no role > , Thomas Sholer, John Langholt< no role > ,
Samuel Watkins< no role > , John Davidson< no role > , John Ross< no role > Phillip Hammond< no role > , and John Thorley< no role > , good
and lawful men of the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn
and charged to inquire for our said Lore the King when how and in what manner
the said Isaac Lawson< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Isaac
Lawson on the third day of September in the year aforesaid being in and on board
of a certain Vessel on the River Thames It so happened that accidentally casually and
by misfortune the sd Irene Lawson fell from and out of the said Lighter into the said River Thames and in
and with the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned
of which said suffocation and drowning he the said Isaac Lawson< no role > did then and there
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Isaac Lawson< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner on the said [..] as the said William Cooke< no role > 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 hand and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.

Wm Cooke [mark] Foreman