London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Botolphwithout Billinsgate in the Ward of
Billinsgate in London aforesaid on the twenty sixth day of November 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 James Wishart< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William
Gould William Hill< no role > Thomas Phipps< no role > Joseph Roome< no role > William Lunn< no role > John Hall< no role > John Rice< no role >
William Russell< no role > Charles Good< no role > Year John Wheeler< no role > John Bates< no role > William Coates< no role > and William
George Wetherell< 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 James Wishart< no role > came to his death say upon their oath
that the said Wishart on the twenty fifth day of Nove in the year aforesaid being in a
certain Lighter then lying and being on the River of Thames and being passing along
and under a certain plank one end whereof was placed on a certain Quay there
called Coxe's Quay and the other end on a certain Vessel then lying and being in the
said River of Thames It so happened that the said Plank accidentally casually and by misfortune [..] fell with
great force and violence upon the said James Wishart< no role > by means whereof the said
James Wishart< no role > was then and there forced and pressed between the said Plank and
the deck of the said Lighter and by such force and pressure as aforesaid did then and
there receive divers mortal wounds and bruises in and upon his head breasts Stomach
and divers parts of his body of which said mortal wounds and bruises he the said
James Wishart< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said James Wishart< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise And that the
said Plank was moving to the death of the said James Wishart< no role > and is of the value of two
shillings and the property and in the possession of a certain person or persons unknown
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Gould< 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 abovewritten.

William Gould< no role > [mark] Foreman