London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the parish of Allhallows the less
in the Ward of Dowgate
in London
aforesaid on the nineteenth day of
July
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 Woman unknown now here lying dead by the oath of
Christopher Teasdale< no role >
Aaron Baker< no role >
William
Willshire< no role >
Edward James< no role >
Petter Cathie James Hallett
Anthony Hales< no role >
Richard Hunt< no role >
Thomas Savill< no role >
Thomas Davies< no role >
William Whaits< no role >
and John Rain 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 Woman unknown came to her death say upon their oath that the said
woman
unknown then lately before accidentally and by misfortune fell into a certain quantity of
Mud and soil then and there lying and adjoining to the River of Thames
by means whereof the said
woman
unknown was then and there checked suffocated and smothered in and with the mud and soil
aforesaid of which said choaking suffocation and smothering the said woman unknown did
then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said woman
unknown
[..] 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
Christopher Teasdale< 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 abovewritten.
Christr Teasdale [mark] Foreman