London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the precinct of Bridewell Hospital in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the sixteenth day of January in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God 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 Ann Edmonds< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Samuel Nash< no role > John Hutching< no role >
Charles Moody< no role > Daniel Braness Joseph Jeffries< no role > John Fowler< no role > Edward Colby< no role > William Ginger< no role >
Thomas Blinks< no role > Henry Holmes< no role > John Smith< no role > Ralph Wylde< no role > James Godfrey< no role > William Taylor< no role >
and George Bill 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 Ann Edmonds< no role > came to her death say upon their oath
that the said Edmonds on the fourteenth day of January in the year aforesaid accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell into the 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 Ann Edmonds< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Edmonds< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Nash< 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.

Saml. Nash [mark] Foreman