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 Billinsgate in London aforesaid on the twenty fourth 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
William Newman< no role > now here lying dead by oath of Charles Brown< 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 William Newman< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said William Newman< no role > on the nineteenth day of July
in the year aforesaid 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 William Newman< no role > did then and there die. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Charles Brown< 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

Charles Brown< no role > [mark] Foreman