London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the parish of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of Billingsgate in London aforesaid on the ninth
day of September 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 a forth before Thomas
Shelton Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark
on view of the Body of a Man unknown now here lying dead by the Oath of William
Parnell Edward Trimmer Thomas Phipps< no role > Thomas Goodwin< no role > James Rice< no role > John Rice< no role > Charles
Perry William Coates< no role > , John Wheeler< no role > John Jacobs< no role > James Robinson< no role > Goles Bollin< no role > John Cole< no role > Richard Duff< no role >
William Marvell< no role > and John Hall< 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
man unknown came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Man unknown on the [..] Seventh day
of September in the year aforesaid being greatly intoxicated By the excessive drinking of a large
quantity of certain strong and spiritnous liquor called Rum It so happened that the said man
unknown on the same day and year aforesaid at the parish and were aforesaid [..]
by such excessive drinking and intoxication was shoaked and suffocated of which said suffocation and shoaking
the said man unknown die then and there die And [..] the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said man unknown in manner and by the means aforesaid came to his
death and not otherwise. In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William
Parnell 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 above written

Wm. Parnell [mark] Foreman