Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at Parish of Saint
Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty seventh
day of October in the thirty fifth 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 Man whose named to the Jurors aforesaid
is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of William Carter< no role > John Winter< no role >
John Simcor< no role > Samuel Watkins< no role > James Judd< no role > David Reddie< no role > This name instance is in set 00. Benjamin Hemmingway< no role >
William Overing< no role > Edmund Robinson< no role > Thomas Powell< no role > George Davis< no role > Robert Barnett< no role >
John West< no role > and John Davidson< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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 Man unknown came to his death say upon
their oath that the said Man unknown on the twenty fourth day of October in the year
aforesaid being in and on board of a certain Vessell lying on the River of Thames It so happened that
the said Man unknown accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the said 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 ManUnknown
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 William Carter< 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

Wm Carter< no role > [mark] Foreman