Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish
of Saint Olave within the Borough Southwark in the County of Surrey on the tenth day of
December in the thirty fourth 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 George Phillips< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Richard Perkin Samuel
Watkins James Judd< no role > John Merrideth James Roscoe< no role > George Ovington< no role > William Eversted< no role > William West< no role > John
Boss Peter< no role > Davis Bartholomew Fearnhead David Reddie and Thomas Deacon< no role > good and lawful men of the
Borough [..] 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 George Phillips< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the
said John Phillips< no role > on the seventh day of December in the year aforesaid being in and on board a certain Vessel
on the River Thames It so happened that the said George Phillips< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from and out of the said Vessel 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
George Phillips< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said George Phillips< 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 Richard Perkin< 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
above written.

Richd. Perkin< no role > [mark] Foreman