London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is
to say at the Parish of Saint Botolph Billinsgate in the Ward of Billinsgate in London
aforesaid on the sixth day of December 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 Ralph Rose< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Alexander
Adam< no role > Thomas Phipps< no role > James Musgrove Joseph Roome< no role > Symon Cook< no role > John Cazedy William
Plummer William Taylor< no role > Stephen Weekham< no role > John Hall< no role > Thomas Goodwin< no role > and Robert Burch< 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 Ralph Rose< no role > came to
his death say upon their oath that the said Ralph Rose< no role > 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
Ralph Rose< no role > did then and there die. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said Alexander Adam< 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 above written.

Alexr. Adam< no role > [mark] Foreman