Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saints
John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the ninth day of September
in the thirty third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace 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 Brough of Southwark on view of the Body
of John Smith< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of John Smith< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of
Thomas Grant< no role > John Longuile< no role > Matthew Winkell< no role > William Watts< no role > William White< no role > Robert Fonenay Richard
Strickland Joseph< no role > Yandall William Allford< no role > Richard Godwin< no role > William Karnall< no role > and John Prince< no role > good
and lawful men of the City of London Borough of Southwark 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 John Smith< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said John Smith< no role > then lately before
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River Thomas and in and with the waters
of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocatiion and drowing
he the said John Smith< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon much
aforesaid do say that the said John Smith< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Thomas Grant< 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 as their hands and seals the day year and place
first above written.

Thos. Gant [mark] Foreman.