Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty
first day of April 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
Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the
body of Henry Harding< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Richard Williams< no role >
William Clark< no role > Iven Lenain< no role > Charles Browning< no role > Nathaniel Foxell< no role > John Smith< no role >
Thomas Till< no role > John Ridge< no role > Charles Shann< no role > Thomas Shott< no role > John Nettleton< no role > Andrew
Newland< no role > and David Key< 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 Henry Harding< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said Henry Harding< no role > on the eighteenth day of
April in the year aforesaid being in and on board a certain Vessell then
lying and being on the river of Thames It so happened that the said Henry
Harding in and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said Henry Harding< no role > did
then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said Henry Harding< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Williams< 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

Richd. Williams [mark] Foreman< no role >