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 nineteenth
day of October in the thirty sixth 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 David Stephenson< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of William West< no role > Joseph Jones< no role > Edward Hooper< no role > Samuel Walkins< no role >
Joseph Robins< no role > John Collins< no role > Roger Hughes< no role > Thomas Bastin< no role > Robert Pickup< no role > William
Barton William Cook< no role > Roger Lewis< no role > David Reddie< no role > This name instance is in set 00. and John Cannaven 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 David Stephenson< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said David
Stephenson on< no role > the eighteenth day of October in the year aforesaid being in and on
board of a certain lighter then lying on the river Thames It so happened that the said
David Stephenson< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said
Lighter 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 David Stephenson< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said David Stephenson< 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 William West< 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.

William West< no role > [mark] Foreman