London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Saint Dunstan in the West in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid the twelfth day of June 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 a boy whose
Christian name is Joseph now here lying dead by the oath of James Hausted< no role > John Porter< no role > Charles
Chorley Charles Hoc James Lamb< no role > Stephen Monday< no role > Joseph Fennell< no role > William Harris< no role > John Jones< no role >
John Jims Chat Bronett John Drake< 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 Joseph came to his death say upon their oath that the said Joseph
on the eleventh day of June in the year aforesaid being in a certain boat on the River of Thames
it so happened that the said Joseph accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River
of Thames and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and
drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said Joseph did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Joseph 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 James Hasted 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

James Hasted [mark] Foreman