London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.

In Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the Precinct of Whitefriars in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid in London
aforesaid on the tenth day of fuly in the thirty third 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 William James< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Richard [..]
William Buckney< no role > Richard Hill< no role > Edward Pock< no role > Thomas Whitton< no role > Joseph Collins< no role > James Winter< no role > John
Price Edward Corby William Goodman< no role > James Mackintire< no role > John Richard< no role > and John Russell< no role >
good and lawful men of the City of London 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 William James< no role >
same to his death say upon their Oath that the said William James< no role > on the eighth day of
July being bathing in the River Thames accidentally casually and by misfortune such beneath
the waters of the said River and in and with the Waters of the sd River was then and there suffocated
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning he the said William James< no role > did then and
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William
James in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was suffocated and
drowned - In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the sd Richard Baker< no role > the foreman
of the sd Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquire
set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Richd Baker< no role > [mark]