London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Allhallows the great in the Ward of Newgate in London aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of August
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 Man unknown now here lying dead by the oath of William Harper< no role > Philip Snewin< no role > Thomas Davise< no role >
William Thompson< no role > Edward Cave< no role > Peter Cathie< no role > Joseph East< no role > Edward Emes< no role > William William Henry< no role > Dady
Samuel Bubrance< no role > and Christopher Mote good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being
now here duly chosen sworn and charged to enquire 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 whose
names to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown then lately before 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 man unknown
did then and there die. And so 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 Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Harper< 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

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Wm. Harper< no role > [mark] Foreman