London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to
say at the parish of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of Billinsgate in London aforesaid
on the twenty fifth day of June 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 Richard
Jones now here lying dead by the oath of William Byford< no role > Thomas Phillips< no role > Simon Cook< no role >
Thomas Goff< no role > John Coleman< no role > Samuel Brises Phillip Holdsworth Jonathan Bates James
Stead Richard Dickins George Keen< no role > Edmund Bell< no role > and Richard Locken 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
Richard Jones< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Richard Jones< no role >
on the twenty fourth day of June in the year aforesaid being employed in the Regging of
a certain Vessell called the favourite then lying and being on the river of Thames It so
happened that the said Richard Jones< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell
from and out of the regging of the said Vessell 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 Richard Jones< no role > did then and there
die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Byford< 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.

Wm. Byford [mark] Foreman