London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Allhallows the great in the Ward of Dowgate in London aforesaid on the eighth day
of August 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 an view of the body of George Cowley< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of William Kent< no role > Thomas Herbert< no role > Edward Evans< no role > Henry Dady Robert Dodd< no role > William Wiltshire< no role >
John Sesby< no role > Thomas Potter< no role > Evan Jones< no role > George Quint< no role > William Harper< no role > and William Pearson< 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 George Cowley< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said George Cowley< no role > on the seventh day of August
in the year aforesaid being bathing in the River of Thames It so happened that the said George
Cowley in and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of
which said suffocation and drowning the said George Cowley< no role > did then and there die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said George Cowley< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune was suffocated. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Kent< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of
his fellows in their presence have to Inquisition at their hands and seals the day year
and place first abovewritten.

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