London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to
say at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise [..] Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the twentieth 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 [..] Richard Pritchard< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Stephen Hempton< no role >
James Dawson< no role > , James Hill< no role > , James Mulvany, John Forbes< no role > , Peter Brough< no role > , Robert Gordon< no role > ,
Benjamin Lawranes< no role > , Benjamin Hack< no role > , Robert Cook< no role > , William Green< no role > , William Runcannon< no role >
and Robert Griffiths< no role > , good and lawful men of the City of London 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 Richard Pritchard< no role > same to Oath say upon Oath
that the said Richard Pritchard< no role > on the eighteenth day of September in the year aforesaid
being in and on board a certain Barge on the River Thames It so happened that the
said Richard Pritchard< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the
said [..] Barge into the said River Thames and in and with the waters of the said
River was then and there suffocated drowned of which said suffocation and drowning
he the said Richard Pritchard< no role > die then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Pritchard< 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 as the said Stephen Hempton< 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 hands and seals
the day year and place first abovewritten.

Stephen Kempton< no role > [mark] Foreman