London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the Parish of Allhallows Barking in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the sixteenth
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 a Man whose name to the Jurors
aforesaid is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of John Gray< no role > John Porter< no role >
Thomas Casson< no role > William How< no role > Richard Morgan< no role > James Hasted< no role > George White< no role > Charles
Burnett John Drake< no role > William Sheete< no role > Mark Cook< no role > William Wardell< no role > Thomas Walker< no role >
William Stennett< no role > and Charles Styring 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 Man unknown came to his
death say upon their oath that the said man unknown on the fourteenth day of
December 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 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 accidentally casually
and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said John Gray< 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.

John Gray< no role > [mark] Foreman